Bass, pike, perch and others by Henshall James A. (James Alexander) 1836-1925

Author:Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishes -- United States, Fishing United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Published: 1903-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

known as the variety cis-montanus. It is bluish or greenish on the back, sides silvery, belly white. All of the fins are tipped with black; caudal and adipose fins are steel-blue.

I know this fish only from the streams of Montana, where it coexists with the red-throat trout and grayling. It spawns in the fall. It feeds on insects and their larv^, small crustaceans, and the eggs of other fishes. It grows to about a foot in length, usually, and to a pound in weight, though I have taken much larger specimens. It is a very fair food-fish, — as good, I think, as the red-throat trout, as its fiesh is firmer and flaky, and devoid of any muddy or musky flavor.

It rises to the artificial fly as readily as the trout or grayling, and to the same flies, though a little more partial to small, dark, or grayish ones, as black, brown, and gray hackles, black gnat, oriole, gray drake, etc. When the streams are higher and not so clear, lighter-colored flies are useful, as professor, coachman, Henshall, miller, etc. Light trout fly-rods and tackle are used both for fly- and bait-fishing by Rocky Mountain anglers, — the bait, when used, being the larva of the caddis-fly, and known as " rockworm." Grasshoppers are employed in the late summer and

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