EISHES AND FISHING IN SUNAPEE LAKE. 47 



be told from brown trout, wliich they probably were. Yet there 

 have been some undoubted Loch Leven trout raised and distributed 

 in this country. The two fish as they appear are as different in 

 shape and color as the common eastern brook trout and the land- 

 locked salmon. In fact the Loch Leven up to 2 or 3 pounds strik- 

 ingly resembles the landlocked salmon in general appearance. It is 

 more slender and silvery than the brown trout, having usually only 

 black X-shaped spots but sometimes round brown spots, and the 

 tail is more forked or emarginate than the brown trout. 



The records given in The Fishmg Gazette (London) of May 4, 

 1912, indicate the sizes of this trout as caught m Loch Leven to-day. 

 From these records it was found that 329 trout in the aggregate 

 weighed 240f pounds, which gives an average of about ll^V ounces. 

 The largest mentioned was one of 1 pound 14^ ounces. 



The Loch Leven trout is also more gamy than the brown trout. 

 Day states that it will eat anything from bread to cockroaches. 

 It is traditional that until in comparatively recent years the Loch 

 Leven trout would not take a fly. Day ascribes this to the dis- 

 appearance of its former food so that it resorted to insects. 



Four plants of what were supposed to be Loch Leven trout have 

 been made in Sunapee Lake. The first is referred to in the New 

 Hampshire Fish Commission report for 1887 as foUows: 



Through the kindness of Prof. J. D. Quackenbos, of Columbia College, New York, 

 we have received a present of 30,000 trout eggs from Loch Leven, Sterling, Scotland. 

 These eggs were purchased by Prof. Quackenbos, at an expense of about $5 per 

 thousand, from the Howietoun fishery. 



Again in the report for 1888 and 1889 it is stated that 30,000 young 

 were planted in Sunapee Lake, presumably in 1888. The plants 

 were as follows: 1888-89, 30,000; 1890, 10,000; 1891, 10,000; 1892, 

 25,000; total, 75,000. 



Two or more fish have been caught by anglers and pronounced 

 Loch Leven trout. The photograph of one of these, a 14-pound fish, 

 seen by the writer, is believed by him to be of the brown trout, 

 S. fario, wliich, if true, indicates that Day's contention that the 

 Loch Leven trout is but a local variation of the brown trout {S. fario) 

 is true, or that some of the supposed Loch Leven trout planted were 

 brown trout, as no brown trout plants have been recorded for 

 Sunapee Lake. 



Lake Trout (Cristivomer namaycush) . 



This fish is the lunge or longe of northern New Hampshire and 

 Vermont, the laker of Maine and New Hampshire, the togue of 

 Maine, the Mackinaw trout of Michigan, and the masamacush or 

 jiamaycush of eastern Canada and Labrador. The Indians of the 



