2l8 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



bruised by a blow. These spots are entirely absent from 

 the ten-pound Beardslee. 



On Friday, April 17th, just before Mrs. Car- 

 rigan and Miss Beazley arrived at the lake (it was about 

 6 o'clock in the afternoon) Mrs. Mitchell caught, with the 

 gear you sent her, a twelve-pound Beardslee, measuring 

 30 inches in length and 8}4 inches through. .She is im- 

 mensely proud of your gift, which is doing such splendid 

 work so early in the season. 



These fine catches made by the ladies prove the possi- 

 bilities of the lake in early spring; your own splendid 

 success demonstrates what can be done late in the fall, at 

 the very tail end of the season. It remains for you to 

 show what can be done in the heat of the season. There 

 is no knowing what surprises may result from the deep 

 fishing that you will do this summer, for I know that you 

 will give the lake a thorough test at all depths. 



It would be a good idea to take out, when you go there 

 this summer, a proper rig for sounding the lake, which 

 has never yet been sounded. 



It is my conviction that you will shatter your own big 

 trout record all to pieces this summer, and give the fish- 

 ing world a series of fresh surprises. 



* * * The Eagle Point stream has its origin in a 

 little lake high up on the mountain side, probably 2,000 

 feet above Lake Crescent. There is a high and very 

 pretty water-fall in the stream. On the mountain side of 

 the little lake are trout, and the fish the ladies picked up 

 on Crescent Lake evidently came from this little lake, 

 being battered to death in coming over the fall. The 

 men who run the launch say that the spring freshets bring 

 down large numbers of trout from this little lake, and 

 that many of them are killed in the descent. 



In a letter to me, dated May 5, 1896, Mr. Carrigan 



