88 Tzvcnty-sixth Annual Meeting 



Mr. Clark : An average of aljout 70 per cent, and I attributed 

 it to the fact that they were wild fish. 



Mr. Bryant: How far did you transport them? 



Mr. Clark: We had a temporary hatchery right there The 

 best water and the finest water I ever saw, and our troughs were 

 set right up over the stream. The eggs were put on gravel. All 

 our green brook trout eggs are put on gravel when they are 

 first taken, and 1 pursued the same plan there. 



Mr. Titcomb: We put our eggs five thousand to the tray 

 and about ten trays deep. 



Mr. Clark: That is ni)' plan for l)ruok trout when first taken. 

 and has been for a good many years. Right on this subject, 

 there is another thing I w^ould like to speak of and that is the 

 different methods of catching wild brook trout. On the Au 

 Sable River we got the fish from the beds w'ith a seine. In 

 the first place, I undertook to sweep the river. I cleaned the 

 ground for hauling a 150-foot seine, but with that we did not 

 succeed in getting many fish; but with a small 20-foot seine, by 

 going on the beds and having a man above and a man below 

 to keep them from running up and down, and two men with the 

 seine to dip up the fish, we got from 5 to 132 at a haul. We got 

 as high as twelve or fourteen hundred fish in three or four hours. 

 Of course, part of them were culled out. We got altogether 

 between five and six thousand fish in that manner. But I do 

 not think your trap that you described, if I understood it, would 

 operate successfully on the Au Sable River at all. It is too large 

 a body of water and has too rapid a fiow. That can be done 

 successfully with the dip-net, by operating it just at the spawning, 

 time 



On the Au Sable River, I found, instead of i)airs making l^eds, 

 there were hundreds of trout on a large bed. They sometimes 

 have a place cleaned up as large as this room where it will be all 

 perfectly clean and in such a place as that I would sw-eep the seine, 

 and caught as high as 132 in one haul and a good many of them 

 got away from us. 



Another point Mr. Titcomb brought out was the fact that 

 these trout run up this trout stream, from being disturbed, to 

 other places. That was not our experience at all. Our experi- 

 ence, with marked fish, was that they would go right back on to 

 that same spawning ground and be caught again. We took fish 

 from this bed and took them to our camp half or three-quarters 



