streams, a pound trout is considered a large one. In Maine, brook trout have been taken up to ten pounds and Frank Forrester (1848) tells of one brought into the Soo by an Indian that weighed 11 pounds. In his "Sportsmen's Gazetteer" (1877) Hallock mentions a brook trout of 17 pounds but unfortunately he gives no particulars. The present record for the Nipigon waters, and perhaps of any waters, is a specimen of 14% pounds caught in 1916 by Dr. Cook of Fort William, Ont.
Edibility
One who has never tasted a brook trout fresh from the water and cooked over a fire on the streamside is not competent to pass on the edible qualities of this fish. Take small trout, cook with bacon in the open so that the flavor of the wood fire can be tasted — as the paper from our home town puts it: " nuf ced! "
