THE TROUrS 



less will thrive in waters having a higher tempera- 

 ture than is conducive to the health and vigor of 

 eastern brook trout. 



By the kindness of John W. Titcomb of St. 

 Johnsbury, Vermont, Department of Fisheries and 

 Game, I am enabled to record his experience in 

 Vermont waters, with the rainbow and steel-head 

 trout. About twenty years ago a gentleman in 

 Rutland secured a lot of rainbow trout and kept 

 them in a reservoir until they became fingerlings 

 or, perhaps, larger. The reservoir overflowed in a 

 freshet, and the fish ran out into what is called 

 East Creek, a tributary to the Otter River. As a 

 result of this plant. East Creek furnished very good 

 fishing, two rainbow trout being caught there to 

 one speckled trout. The tendency of the fish was 

 to work down into the broader and deeper parts of 

 the creek, where they sometimes attained a size of 

 three pounds, and proved very gamy. 



As the stream flows through the city of Rut- 

 land, the second largest place in Vermont, where 

 ^here are a great many sportsmen, the fish have 

 become depleted as a result of over-fishing. A 

 few fish ran out of East Creek into Otter Creek, 

 thence up towards its source several miles, and 

 from there entered what is called Cold River, an- 

 other trout stream, where they are occasionally 



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