14 FISHES AND FISHING IN SUNAPEE LAKE. 



lake water near shore from April 28 to August 18 of the same year was 

 over 30°. 



The temperature of Pike Brook varied with the month and with the 

 weather and according to the portion of the brook in which observa- 

 tions were made. But there was no great range of temperature, either 

 of that taken in the same place or different places durmg the season 

 or in different localities in the brook during the same day. During the 

 summer, aside from the spring pools, the coolest part of the brook gen- 

 erally was where it flowed through the woods or Soo-Nipi Park, the 

 warmest was in the dead water, and the next warmest in the meadows. 

 On July 19 the shallow water of the first meadow registered 60° and 

 at the bottom of a deep pool 59°. From just below the meadow, 

 through the woods, excepting in spring-fed pools, down to Alaria 

 Spring it was 58°; below this to and including a pool just above the 

 dead water it was 57°. During August there was not much change 

 from this condition, never over 2°. On the 18th the brook was con- 

 stantly 57° through the woods, excepting the spring pools and the 

 water near them, down to the broad shallow pools below the hatchery, 

 where it rose to 58°, and the pool just above the dead water, where on 

 July 19 it registered 57°, the temperature was 59°. The spring-fed 

 pool near the hatchery has been referred to a number of times. It is 

 a pool about 3 feet deep during the summer, situated a little to one 

 side of the main current of the brook, where the water is shallow. 

 On August 18 the temperature, as before stated, was 50° and the 

 brook in the main current close by the pool was 55°. On the same 

 date the dead water about halfway of its length registered 66° at the 

 surface and 63° at bottom in 2 feet of water. At the head of the 

 dead water in about the same depth the temperature was 60°. 



Newbury Beach Brook is a small brook near the lake flowing 

 through a small swamp. It does not seem to be a very desirable 

 place in which to plant young salmonids. It was not learned that 

 smelts ever ascend this brook. 



Sunapee Mountain stream consists of two branches, one flowing 

 down the side of Sunapee Mountain, steep and rocky, the other the 

 outlet of Spectacle Pond. There is always water in the brook and 

 always trout, but sometimes the brook is so dry that the trout are 

 confined in detached pools and even some of these pools dry up. On 

 one visit early in July many trout were removed from the pools and 

 placed in deeper water below, whence they could descend to the 

 lake. On July 26 there was more water in the brook. 



Spectacle Pond is a small lake of very hregular shore line, which 

 greatly modifies its otherwise general triangular shape, about six- 

 tenths of a mile from apex to base and eleven-twentieths in greatest 

 width near the base, which is the southwestward end. The pond is 

 situated in a direct line from the widest part of the co^^er expansion 



