. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. TUIS SALMON FAMILY. 255. THE LESSER LAKE TROUT. Salmo Adirondakus: Nobis. This, the Lake Trout of Hamilton and Franklin counties, in the state of New York, is found in all the small lakes •stretching along at intervals wes
. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. TUIS SALMON FAMILY. 255. THE LESSER LAKE TROUT. Salmo Adirondakus: Nobis. This, the Lake Trout of Hamilton and Franklin counties, in the state of New York, is found in all the small lakes •stretching along at intervals west of the Adirondack Moun- tains. It differs much in its proportions from the engraving of Salmo confinis, found in De Kay's book, and reproduced by Frank Forester; the latter looks more like the huge misshapen Brook Trout, sometimee taken when trolling in those waters, than any fish found in Lakes Pleasant, Piseco, Indian or Long Lake, or in Tuppers or the Saranac Lakes, farther north: still I have no doubt, from what I have heard, that there are other species, or at least varieties of Lake Trout found in those regions, and that De Kay's representation may resemble an overgrown specimen of one of them. This fish, in form, is oblong; head one-fourth its length ; upper jaw slightly longer; no scales on opercles; eye one- , third distant from snout. Color: back, bluish green; sides, silvery gray; belly, white; lateral line straight; the body is mottled rather than spotted ; branchial rays 12; dorsal I'lO; pectorals 13; venti'al 9 ; anal 2-10; caudal (forked) 3-22, 8. There are two rows of teeth on each side of the roof of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler
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