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Title: Favorite fish and fishing
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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s,sometimes, especially the males, a pink flushalong the sides, but not so pronounced asin the rainbow trout. Its color is also of alighter hue, with steely reflections. Itsscales are somewhat larger than those of thered-throat, but not so large as in the rain-bow trout.As a Game-Fish It seems to be pretty well established inLake Superior, where it was introduced bythe United States Bureau of Fisheries, somefine catches having been made of late years.It has also been introduced Into severalstates on the eastern slope of the Rockies,which seem to be very suitable for this finefish. In Montana I have taken it up to fivepounds. It rises eagerly to the fly, andwhen hooked breaks water repeatedly likethe black bass. It is very trying to lighttackle, and must be carefully handled bythe angler. The flies named for the red-throat trout are just as killing for the steel-head. Like the red-throat it is also sus-ceptible to bait, which in Montana is the rock-worm, the larva of the caddis fly.io6
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The Trout As a food fish it excels all of the trout Remarkable species as might be surmised. In freshwater lakes it should grow to eight or tenpounds. Near Virginia City, Montana, islocated Axolotl Lake, so named from beingInhabited by a species of axolotl, but It con-tained no fish of any kind until stocked witha few thousand steelhead trout fingerllngsfrom the Bozeman Fisheries Station, In1902. In September, 1907, two of myfriends, while trolling from a canvas boaton this lake, caught eleven trout weighingin the aggregate seventy pounds, the largestweighing thirteen pounds, an extraordinaryweight for a five-year-old trout. But thisIs easily explained when it Is consideredthat the trout had been feasting for sev-eral years on such nutritious diet as thesecurious amphibians afforded, and in greatabundance, but which now are said to bescarce. The rainbow trout has also been Intro- The Rainbowduced to Eastern waters by the United l-j^usf^^States Bureau of Fisheries, and seems to bewell

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