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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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. If we have but twospecies of lake trout in this country, it is.ver)- important that fishermen should knowit. Of course, color and markings cannot be depended on in establishing species,for these vary greatly. Mr. Garman says, in describing all the fish grouped as S.iiaiiiayrnsli, that the color is grayish brown, very light to very dark, with palespots on the sides and dark marblings on the cheeks, but every fisherman knowsthat the color will vary even more than from very light to very dark. The following description and account of the habits of the togue is from a bro-chure on this fish, published by A. C. Hamlin, M.D., and reprinted in the secondannual report upon the Natural History and Geology of the State of Maine, 1882.I present it here, because, so far as my own observation goes, it will apply to mostof the so-called lake trout of the North and East. 1 omit the purely technicalportions of the description. The togue, Sal/no toiiia, Hamlin. This trout, known among the aborigines
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Its a Good One. 146 IVitJi Fly-Rod ami Caiiicm. What sort of a fish is the land-locked salmon, thatyou spoke of? asked Hiram; I dont think I ever sawone, altogether. Well, Hiram, I replied, as near as I can describe as the tog-ue, tuladi, etc., li;is been classed Ijy some observers as identical withthe Salnio huclio of the Danube and uf the lakes of northern Europe; but inthese classifications peculiarities of anatomical structure have been overlooked, and thehabits of the two lishes ha\e also been noted as similar, wliereas in reality the\-present great contrasts, for the one, agile and alert, seeks the swift and foaniingcurrents of the clearest streams, and the other, sly and sluggish, haunts always thequiet waters of the deepest lakes. It is mentioned by )Mr. C.esner in his reportupon Xew Brunswick, and identified with the Saliiio laciistns of Lake Cieneva; aproper examination of the two fishes, however, will satisfy the naturalist that fewpositive analogies can be drawn ; and agai

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