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of a mile below, and stripped them. Of course we turned all 

 our fish back into the river, marked some, and we would catch 

 the fish right on the very same bed — the marked fish. We 

 marked the fish with a tin tag and caught them over again. 



Mr. Titcomb: I did not mean to be understood that the 

 fish had taken the cue from the fact that we had caught them 

 from one brook and then gone into another. I left that as an open 

 question, and I still leave it as an open question, and I am glad 

 to hear Mr. Clark's ideas on this subject. With the lake fish, 

 that was our method of fishing. We took once 140 fish at a 

 haul, but 1 found after a while that that method was not practical, 

 as there was only one bed in the lake where we could use that 

 method. Our boats in the lake require a 200-foot clear sweep 

 in order to swing around the whole bed Sometimes there would 

 be six fish in a circular nest, but ordinarily we would strike two 

 fish together — that is, they would run together. 



I want to say another word about that trap. The streams 

 of Vermont, where the brook trout are now found, are mostly 

 small streams, ten to fifteen feet wide, and it is hard to build a 

 trap in a small stream. The trout all run in that small entrance. 

 The most of our waters are trout waters. Some of them have 

 been spoiled by putting in pickerel and other coarse varieties of 

 fish, and the nature of some of our streams is being changed so 

 that we cannot hope to restore trout fishing in them. We get 

 some good results from stocking our trout ponds. These mill 

 ponds I described are simply ordinary trout streams, four by six 

 feet in width, dammed up simply for the purpose of floating logs, 

 and it was several years before they discovered they had such 

 a wonderful trout pond, and it was one of the most prolific 

 natural breeding places I have ever known. The trout 

 had originally the forest stream to breed in, and had no falls or 

 any great rapids in the brook, and -it was fed by little l)its of 

 springs running 'into it. 



Mr. Bower: I want to say that Mr. Titcomb is certainly very 

 fortunate, more fortunate than we are in Michigan in having 

 these places to get the wild trout from. With the exception of 

 the Au Sable River, and perhaps two or three other streams, 

 we are not favored as you are in Vermont. We have no 

 lakes stocked with brook trout from which the fish run into the 

 streams. 



The method employed by Mr. Titcomb in catching the trout 

 is substantially the same as we used at Green Lake Station, where 



