Salmon and trout by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Salmon fishing, Trout fishing
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Published: 1902-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

with which the body is more or less dotted when in fluvial or lacustrine waters, disappear, leaving but few traces of his fresh-water garb. When taken in salt water it is found to be of increased size, upwards of twenty-five pounds, and is generally called by marketmen and anglers " the salmon-trout," which causes greater difficulty in an intelligent appreciation of the technical differences of the charr-trout and the salmon-trout. The numerous local and variant names for the same species of fish in different waters presents the greatest bar to the increase of popular knowledge of the fish fauna of American waters.

The cut-throat is an omnivorous feeder, but, like all species of the same family, is cleanly in his choice of food — he does not touch carrion of any description. Minnows, insects, worms of all kinds, grasshoppers, fresh meat, and above all the artificial fly, when properly and skilfully manipulated, is most attractive; for he is at all times, when the water is clear, a surface feeder, but is not particular as to coloration or form of the feathered lure presented to him. The angling tourist visiting the native waters of this fish, to be assured of success among the cut-throats, need only stock his fly book with the standard flies used in luring

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