8 FISHES AND FISHING IN SUNAPEE LAKE. 



The few soundings taken by the writer, however, show that the 

 deepest water is probably about in a Hne between "The Hedgehog" 

 and ''Owls Nest," where the depth is something over 100 feet, vary- 

 ing, of course, with the height of the lake. 



The white trout and salmon summer fishing grounds are contigu- 

 ous to the deepest places in the lake, the principal ones being, from 

 the north southward, Scotts Cove, The Hedgehog, off Birch Point, and 

 Split Rock. 



At Scotts Cove the ground is but a short distance from the en- 

 trance, where the depth is about 80 feet. At The Hedgehog the 

 ground extends from not over 100 yards from shore out one-fourth 

 of a mile or so, the depth varying from 60 to 90 feet or more. Off 

 Birch Point the ground covers an area of 2 or 3 acres, perhaps, 

 with a general depth of about 80 to 90 feet. At Split Rock, which 

 is more restricted in area, not far from shore the depth is generally 

 about 50 to 70 feet. 



As is usual with deep cold lakes with rocky shores, there is very 

 little vegetation. On the sandy shoals there are patches of varying 

 extent of chara, and it is on the chara bottom that black bass are 

 caught when they are caught at all on the sandy bottoms. 



In protected locaUties, such as shallow coves, there is a more or 

 less prolific growth of one or more species of pondweed, pipewort, 

 etc. In the lagoonUke dead water of the mouths of some of the 

 brooks the purely aquatic vegetation consists mainly of bladder- 

 wort, with some pondweed and bur-reed. 



The quicker portions of the larger brooks contain often prolific 

 growths of moss (Fontinalis) and a good deal of water cress. 



TRIBUTARIES. 



The meagerness of the tributary water supply indicates that Suna- 

 pee Lake must be to a large extent spring fed. There are no large 

 inflowing streams. The largest is a brook entering the head of the 

 lake at Georges Mills, which discharges the waters of Otter Pond and 

 ponds connected with it. 



The streams of more or less importance on the east shore, enumer- 

 ated in order from Georges Mills southward to Newbury are: Two 

 very small brooks entering Herrick Cove, one above and one below 

 Lakeside; a very small one a short distance above Hastings; King 

 Hill Brook, entering the lake at Soo-Nipi Park; Pike Brook, a short 

 distance below this ; Blodgett Brook and Newbury Beach Brook. In 

 the same order on the west side are: Jobs Creek Brook; a diminutive 

 brooklet entering Scotts Cove; one entering the north side of Suna- 

 pee Harbor; Sucker Brook, flowing into Fishers Bay; and Sunapee 

 Mountain Brook, entering the lake above Edgemont. All are small 

 brooks and some of them entirely dry during the summer, as they were 



