. The encyclopaedia of sport. ank, and ugly. Many such a trout hasbeen foolishly returned to the water by well- have a light brown back, in fact almost gravelcolour. This is without doubt a provision ofnature to disguise the fish as much as possiblefrom the keen eyes of herons and other fish-eating birds. The life history of the trout is now wellknown. It commences, of course, with the egg,which is deposited by the female on a gravellyshallow in a river or brook. Its size may equalthat of a pea if deposited by a large, healthy,and not too old fish, while the eggs from smallburn trout are a goo
. The encyclopaedia of sport. ank, and ugly. Many such a trout hasbeen foolishly returned to the water by well- have a light brown back, in fact almost gravelcolour. This is without doubt a provision ofnature to disguise the fish as much as possiblefrom the keen eyes of herons and other fish-eating birds. The life history of the trout is now wellknown. It commences, of course, with the egg,which is deposited by the female on a gravellyshallow in a river or brook. Its size may equalthat of a pea if deposited by a large, healthy,and not too old fish, while the eggs from smallburn trout are a good deal smaller. As thefemale sheds her eggs, the male fish extrudes afew drops of milt in the water, which may, ormay not, reach the eggs and fertilize fish, with a vigorous sweep of the tail, thenthrow up some gravel behind them, which isintended to, but does not always, cover up theeggs which have just been laid. The waste, ofcourse, is enormous. A trout yields roughlyabout 1,000 eggs for every pound avoirdupois of. Troit. meaning anglers, who thought it was merely outof condition, and would grow into a lusty,silvery-sided, big-spotted, small-headed fish lateron in the season. The variations in the size, number, and posi-tion of spots on trout are very remarkable. Ihave taken fish on the sides of which were tworows of spots placed at equal and regular dis-tances, while the very next fish which found itsway into my creel would be covered with spotsas if they had been sprinkled over it out of apepper pot. In quickly grown, healthy, laketrout the spots are often few and very large,with a kind of halo round them. The colours on the scales of the fish dependvery much on its surroundings. A trout takenoff a muddy, weedy bottom will often havea general shade of rich yellow over its sides andbelly, while even in the same lake a trout takenfrom the opposite shore which, let us say, isrocky and sandy, will be of a steely blue trout swimming in deep water over a peatyb
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