The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-09-01
BROOK TROUT.
t.. If this Popular Game Fish

O. q. .;,,cr snecleS, III tWciiey-cisHI
dlseliIi .oown as trout among the
n North America. There here. are re
nee, ''| the dollyvarden trout,
tFot .r,,,t and so on; and in Eu-,
zee !. 't +bere are many other spe-
As at the head of them all, IN
. d o,nsjitv and renown, stands
"a } bro5k trout of North Amer
A.. tr,i1t that inhabits every
l u, Wsine. and nearly or quite
~. u, and cool ponds and lakes.
rs il IS generally a diminutive
D -isigfing only few ounces; in
!, ! fsh Of pounds, but it is
y ,1 nj both cases, known to
j,'-,st as Salvelinus fontinalis
5 w. frour tor ''charr'') of the
y" Tpis name CHAR" is one
..,a. trout has escaped by some
.; sg for those trout of the
l ' ar most closely related
.,cr,,re are not called trout"
I'll rr and some of the old
Ten. who are fussy about
;s+t-st oar fish should be call
American CHAIR.
a q name? To US this
I'm les always been a trout;
~ AL remain, whether we
lille brook or in Patterns
ss.-4 lake; and when any,
Ial-r from Moosehead
truut' we will say
. keep the name circuit
. WeUd.
.rs itz in alittle. round,
wle. yellowish egg,
.t au nc h in diameter,
rm leXible and elastic
r These eggs are de-
..., .h.r tSh in autumn, in
... l rapid brooks and left
When they have lain
go ne weeks. say about
should get one out and
t -m.4 md it tenanted by
tf ,NO immense staring
nler body coiled up
sating heart, veins
Oh which courses red
t1- not until spring
III. break the shell and
.. ~Jmetime in May he
ng the tiniest water
- rst born he weighs
.t grains. With such
.ges he grow, if condi-
.e that in six months
u become one or two
4ai in three years he
.0 several pounds, that
y thousand times the
hs started in life. If
ke that we should get
m toms apiece before we
''ga to school.
.-Il oe able to adapt them
Hlronments remarkably
a- owiy and remaining al
asr.t n very close quarters,
rook, for instance, and
anty, but in deep and
with abundant food,
E argc size. Perhaps it
Hse.5 axes that they reach
Il weight. The writer once
It'd Of an afternoon fishing
eangeleys laid out side by
rr and there was a trout for
r9iad up to eight pounds.
than this have, however,
Il ia those waters; there are
! instances of eleven-pound
perhaps larger.
! -r0ut is favorite subject
ropagation and rearing.
-,4les fish commission dis
5t 200 of various ages during
ar In southeastern Massa-
srr are several fish-farms de-
F. growing of trout for mar
2 brooks are transformed
where many thousands of
ny hand on chopped meat,
:. e-l.. on such a scale that
mark eted amounts to several
e.. III each farmer. The cost
s'Ior would not permit of a
.n-as- We're it not for the
fation # trout among epi-
e. warrants dealers in paying
3-cez such as forty or fifty
e ral trout insist on is cool
u7 salmon will thrive in
s-s otter to eighty degrees
hut trout would perish
rrature and even suffer
up 10 seventy degrees.
>ty-fve degrees Fahren-
-dmirably, and in lower
AN that they maintain
riectly but grow slower.
they abound they seek
2 rool brooks during the
summer, and in lakes
depths, where it is at
avs cooler than at the
1w axes, say thirty feet
p'H. are apt to get too
It seldom if ever inhabit
arg considerable numbers.
sertial FOR trout is suitable
-E The best is a good
water with gravelly rap
rs 4 gravel bar or grav-
Ia but in this case the
very pure. Craig pond,
f} .e named as a piece of
=. 0- after conditions pre-
maintained themselves
~" memorial by spawn
y shores. It is, how
"ey are plenty in such
We in all cases animal
-' Dung they eat minute
't0 a little larger their food
'-- wholly Of insects, but as
Urge enough to swallow
prey on all such as
j. asa, and care not if the
taar own race. A trout of
Iaae1 once in the winter at
AaaS eley lakes was found to
7. ~ a fish projecting from
ms was pulled out ard
'Ag to a smaller trout, which
'4-4 and half swallowed, and
'rglt had in his turn another
d 'hub s, projecting from his
N.Y. pt the triple tragedy ap-