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Mr. Titcomb: The lakes in the natural state, before the de- 

 struction of the forests, were all trout lakes. The Connecticut 

 river was a salmon stream and carried the salmon up to all the 

 smaller streams in Vermont. At that time there were sal- 

 mon and trout. Of course, the salmon have all gone, 

 and the lakes back in Vermont in which the trout have not been 

 destroyed by the introduction of pickerel and that class of fish, are 

 natural trout waters, with the exception of some lakes, where 

 the surroundings have been entirely changed by the demo- 

 lition of the forests, so that the temperature of the water 

 has raised. While this method of fishing does not apply to your 

 State here and your vicinity, it would apply, I suppose, in a State 

 like New York, where they have lakes abounding in trout, and 

 the same in the State of Maine. 



Mr. Dickerson: I know some of the lakes in Maine have 

 trout in them, and many of the lakes in Canada. 



Mr. Nevin: I have tried to set a trap after the manner 

 described, but the leaves would get in there enough to clog the 

 trap and we could not keep it clean at all, then we used a fvke- 

 net and drove the fish into it. 



Mr. Titcoml): Didn't the pressure of the water collapse the 

 fyke-net? 



Mr. Nevin: No. 



Mr. Titcomb: The fish would try to go over the top of the 

 weir in the pond I speak of; in this trap, the trout would go up 

 to the weir before the trap was built and you could stand there 

 and see those trout jump up. 



The Chair: We will now listen to a report of the Committee 

 on Nominations. 



Air. Peabody: The Committee on Nominations unanimously 

 report for officers for the coming year: President, W. L. May, 

 of Nebraska; Vice-President, G. F. Peabody, of Vermont; Re- 

 cording Secretary, Herschel Whitakcr, Detroit; Corresponding 

 Secretary, J. E. Gunckel, of Ohio; Treasurer, L. D. Huntington, 

 of New York. Executive Committee — James A. Dale, of Penn- 

 sylvania; E. E. Bryant, of Wisconsin; A. N. Cheney, of New 

 York; J. W. Titcomb, of Vermont; J. L. Preston, of Michigan; 

 F. N. Clark, of the United States Fish Conmiission, and H. A. 

 Sherwin, of Ohio. 



On motion the report was unanimously accepted and adopted, 

 and the nominees were declared elected. 



