FISHES AND FISHING IN SUNAPEE LAKE. 7 



The principal beaches, in order from the south northward, are: 

 One extending from near Cressys Point on the south side of Blodgetts 

 Cove to the mouth of Blodgett Brook and a little way on the north 

 side of the cove. The shores are then rocky for about a mile to the 

 "Owls Nest," just below the mouth of Pike Brook. Thence a beach 

 extends to Hastings above Soo-Nipi Park with occasional short inter- 

 ruptions of rocky shore, especially at points. From Hastings to 

 Georges MiUs the shores vary in character, but are mainly rocky with 

 outlying shoal water with sandy bottom. 



The water on the west side of the expansion from below Dunnings 

 Point at the entrance to Georges MiUs Cove or Bay is comparatively 

 deep and the shores are mainly rocky, as obtains even in some of the 

 coves, such as Jobs Creek and Scotts Cove (Gardners Bay). 



A large cove known as Sunapee Harbor, previously mentioned, 

 situated about two- thirds the distance, on the west shore, from New- 

 bury to Georges Mills, is the immediate origin of Sugar Kiver, the 

 outlet of Sunapee Lake, which debouches into the Connecticut River 

 near AcutneyviUe post office, in the township of Claremont. 



At the entrance to Sunapee Harbor are two or more rather extensive 

 reefs of bowlders, contiguous to deep water, which were perhaps once 

 islands. The most extensive one has more or less sand bottom mixed 

 with the bowlders, and wUl be mentioned again in connection with 

 the fish of the lake, 



Mr. Henry Allen Hancox, a civil engineer of Newbury, has thor- 

 oughly sounded and accurately platted the depths of the whole 

 southern expansion and up as far as the islands above The Narrows. 

 Mr. Hancox kindly gave the writer a blue-print map from which the 

 following data were obtained : 



The deepest water of the southern expansion covers an area of 

 several acres, carrying from 65 to over 80 feet of water. It lies east 

 of the mid-north and south Ime and is known as the Deep Waters 

 Fishing Ground. The deepest water in The Narrows is about 41 

 feet, at the northern entrance, ranging to 20 feet near the southern 

 end mid line of the lake, just a little north of a line drawn east from 

 Brightwood Landing. 



In the portion of the lake between The Narrows and the islands is 

 generally deep water, which obtains to not a great distance from 

 either shore, from about 30 to over 80 feet. 



Among the islands there are passages carrying from 10 to 30 feet 

 of water. 



In the summer of 1910 the writer essayed to sound the northern ex- 

 pansion above the islands, but abandoned the attempt owing to the 

 unavoidable unreliability of the positions and the fact that Mr. Han- 

 cox stated that he intended soon to complete this work by sounding 

 and platting the remainder of the lake. 



