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sirring lake trout fry have been planted in these waters. When 

 the first plant was made the lake contained a few brook trout, a 

 few orolden trout (aureolus) and many shiners, dace and suck- 

 ers, but no lake trout. In June, 1901, I caught with rod and 

 surface troll four lake trout weighing three and one-half pounds, 

 two and three quarters pounds and one and a half pounds respec- 

 tively, and one fish ten inches long which was returned to the 

 lake alive and not weighed. I was informed by the landlord of a 

 sportsman's resort nearby that the lake trout caught Ijy other 

 fishermen did not vary an ounce from the weights above given. 

 In other words, that the fish representing the various ages from 

 one year to four were quite uniform in weight. The standard 

 weight for a four year old lake trout is therefore three and a half 

 pounds, for the three year old two and three quarter 

 pounds, two year old one and a half pounds, one year old about 

 three-quarters of a pound. Of course the growth may be greater 

 or less in other waters, Init the above is an accurate basis for 

 data. I may properly add that my landlord informant con- 

 sidered that his property had doubled in value in the short s])ace 

 of time that this lake had demonstrated results from stocking 

 with artificially hatched fish. 



In the fall of 1897, landlocked salmon, fingerlings. were first 

 introduced in Caspian Lake, Greensboro, Vermont, and plants 

 have been made annually since that time. Previous to 1897 the 

 lake was well stocked with smelts. In May, 1901, one landlocked 

 salmon was taken with rod and line, weighing eight and a half 

 pounds, one weighing seven pounds fourteen ounces, and many 

 others weighing from two to five pounds. The lake contained 

 no salmon previous to 1897. The lake is about two and a half 

 miles long by one mile wide at the widest place. It contains 

 speckled trout, ranging from a small fish to five pounds in 

 weight, and lake trovit averaging about five pounds in weight, 

 but frequently caught weighing from nine to fourteen pounds. 

 The lake ti'out were first introduced in 1891. 



It is safe to say that a daily average of :^()0 pounds of trout 

 and salmon were caught from this lake on week days through 

 the moulh of ^lay, 1901, the results of artificial propagation. In 

 many places we cannot prove that the fish caught were artificially 

 hatched, but the above examples furnish very definite data. 



