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The steel head was once considered the same fish

Mountain Trout

as the cut throat and many western anglers still maintain that the rainbow and the steel-head are identical except for local variations, showing that all of these western fishes greatly resemble each other in a general way at least.

The steel head trout is looked upon as a good game fish in the west, rising well to flies in the streams and putting up a good fight, mostly in the air like the rainbow. At the mouths of rivers very large specimens are taken with live bait.

The Dolly Varden or bull trout (Salvelinus malma) is the only charr native to the west. It is a stockier

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