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Title: American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Squawfish PtycJiocheilns orcgoncnsis Richardson The squawfish is one of the largest of the minnows. itreaches a length of 2 to 4 feet, a size which shows strikinglythat minnows are not necessarily little fish. Its geographic range is from British Columbia southward inPacific Coast drainage to central California. In the ColumbiaRiver basin it ascends as far as Shoshone Falls in Snake River,and at least to Flathead Lake in Clarks Fork. It is abun-dant in the Fraser, and also in the Sacramento, San Joaquin,Salinas, and other lowland streams of California. It is veryabundant in the Redfish Lakes, and other lakes of Idaho. Dur-ing the fall and the latter part of summer large schools of thisspecies could be seen, particularly in the evening, swimmingabout the mouths of the inlets, usually at a depth of 5 to 40feet, but toward evening they would come to the surface and 68
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GERMAN CARP, Cyprimis carpio. IXTRODLXED ^>Kx: The White Salmon feed greedily upon various insects that had fallen upon thesurface of the water. Their manner of taking these insects isvery much like that of the trout. Frequently they would jumpentirely out of the water in their eagerness to secure the fallinginsect. They will rise to the artificial fly quite freely. By usingRoyal Coachman and fishing as if for trout excellent sport maybe had. They rise to the fly promptly, strike quickly, and fightvigorously for a few moments, after which they allow themselvesto be pulled in without much struggle. They will rise to thefly best in the evening, but will at any time take the hookbaited with salmon spawn. During the spring and early summer the Squawfish run outinto the streams, where they seem to prefer to spawn, but in thefall and winter the streams connected with lakes are apt to bedeserted by this fish. In the winter it is sought as an articleof food, and fishing through the ice for

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