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Description No artist can paint nor writer describe adequately the beauties of a freshly caught brook trout. As the old fashioned advertisements say, he " must be seen to be appreciated."
Brook Trout In form the brook trout up to two or three pounds is the ideal fish — trim and neat. Larger specimens become aldermanic, with cruel looking, undershot jaws. The eye is placed high in the head as one would expect of a fish that might be called " insectivorous." In coloration the brook trout is truly a thing of beauty. A recently caught male fish of fifteen ounces lies before me as I write. Looking down on the back it appears to be purplish in color, the lighter vermicula-tions or worm marks mottling the back almost like the so-called mackerel sky; the dorsal fin is similarly marked. The sides, in the middle, are covered with spots much lighter than the green-gray ground color. Many of these spots — seemingly haphazardly — are themselves decorated with tiny dots of brilliant red, most of these red spots being below the distinct median line and none of them behind the anterior end of the anal fin. The tail fin is mottled red, bordered with black. The belly is light colored with just a suggestion of pink and azure, the tiny scales giving it a silken sheen, most beautiful to behold. The lower fins are red, slightly flecked with dark spots and with a black and white edging. |
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