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Again, in the same paper, June 8, 1876, it was reported that a 2-pound landlocked 

 salmon was caught about the same time from Rangeley Stream, "the first stranger of 

 any size that has been caught from the recent importations into these waters." This 

 paper reported in its issue of June 7, 1877, that several salmon, weighing from i to 4 

 pounds, had been taken, and on August 19, 1880, five were reported, the largest of 

 which weighed 4 pounds. 



The American Angler, July, 1882, contained a statement to the effect that at noon 

 on July 2 a landlocked salmon weighing nearly 4 pounds was taken in swift water below 

 the dam (Middle Dam). This was the largest one ever taken there. 



Commissioner H. O. Stanley reported to Forest and Stream, October 26, 1882, as 

 follows: 



I am very happy to say that the salmon put in an appearance in the Rangeley Stream for the first 

 time. Some of them were very large. I saw five of them in a pool, which I estimated would run from 

 4 to 10 pounds each. They have also been taken in the lakes below. For the short time that has 

 elapsed since they were introduced and the small number of eggs this increase has been remarkable. 



In American Angler, April 14, 1883, J. G. Rich, writing of record trout, said that 

 at the same time there were also taken many landlocked salmon, the plant of which 

 was made about five years previously, the fish weighing from 5 to 10 pounds. The same 

 paper, July 24, 1884, stated that a 5-pound salmon had been taken from Umbagog 

 Lake, and that a large one had been hooked and lost in Mooselucmaguntic Lake. This 

 paper, November 25, 1886, contained the statement that in the previous September, while 

 fishing in Rapid River opposite the old Oxford Club House, a landlocked salmon that 

 had two rows of red spots on each side and two others that had only black spots were 

 caught. On May 22 of that year four salmon weighing, respectively, 3, 8, 9, and 11 

 pounds were reported. In Forest and Stream, June 3, 1886, a correspondent wrote 

 that the showing up of landlocked salmon in the Androscoggin Lakes that spring had 

 established a happy fact for anglers and a triumph in fish propagation very gratifying 

 to everybody, and more especially to the worthy fish commissioners of the State, who 

 had labored so arduously in that direction. 



Writing of Rapid River in American Angler, February 6, 1886, J. G. Rich stated that 

 fishermen reported the taking of a great number of trout and salmon 8 or 10 inches long, 

 about the same nmnber of each kind. 



Forest and Stream, May 26, 1887, stated that it was worthy of note that trout scores 

 of the early arrivals at Rangeley Lake were sprinkled with landlocked salmon, and the 

 American Angler, June 11, of the same year, stated that in addition to trout they then 

 had a fair quantity of landlocked salmon. Hardly a day passed without one or two 

 being brought into camp, weighing 2 pounds on an average, while much larger ones were 

 often seen and taken, and it was thought that the day was not far distant when there 

 would be a plentiful supply of this variety. The same paper, June 30, of that year, said 

 that there were numerous reports of the capture of landlocked salmon in the Upper 

 Androscoggin Lakes, particularly Rangeley Lake. The catches of trout were said to be 

 sprinkled now and then with a salmon or two. But there was no report of any in the 

 lower lakes of that chain for that season. 

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