526 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



A Philadelphia correspondent of Forest and Stream, October 13, 1887, established a 

 record of salmon taken on a fly as follows : 



It may interest the readers of Forest and Stream to learn that on Monday, September 26, I took a 

 landlocked salmon in the Rangeley Lake (near the end of tlie lake at Greenvale) which weighed 7K 

 pounds. I used an ordinary' 7-ounce fly rod, small linen line, 6-foot leader, dark Montreal, and a light- 

 colored fly, the latter being the drop, which he took in a manner that showed that he meant business. 

 * * * This is said to be as large a salmon as was ever taken from the Rangeley Lakes with a fly. 



Forest and Stream, May 31, 1888, stated that considerable success was noted that 

 spring in taking landlocked salmon in Rangeley Lake. One of 5 pounds and one of 6}4 

 pounds were reported as well as a large number of smaller sizes. The report continued : 



It is worthy of note, however, that although these landlocked salmon have been planted in the other 

 lakes of the Androscoggin chain, and that these lakes are all connected by quite respectable rivers in point 

 of size, yet but very few salmon have been taken other than in Rangeley Lake, 



In the same paper, a communication dated Mav 25 stated that parties were 

 catching more landlocked salmon than ever before. 



The report of each succeeding year indicated an increase in number and size of salmon, 

 also their gradual appearance successively down the chain of lakes. Forest and Stream, 

 July 30, 1891, stated that it was quite evident that the introduction of landlocked salmon 

 into the Maine lakes was going to be a success. But, as shown elsewhere, there appeared 

 no positive and definite salmon records for 1892, 1893, and 1894. Reference to fish were, 

 in all probability in part at least, to salmon, but owing to the element of uncertainty 

 such indefinite accounts are not here included. 



Forest and Stream, July 24, 1897, contained a communication, dated July 12, in which 

 it was recorded that Prof. S. R. Morse, of Atlantic City, N. J., took a i3X-pound salmon 

 "the largest landlocked salmon ever taken with hook and line from Rangeley waters." 

 Another angler, about the same time, took one of 12 pounds. Both were caught in 

 Upper Rangeley, or Oquossoc Lake. Up to this time the majority of the salmon had 

 been caught in the upper lakes, particularly Oquossoc. Forest and Stream, May 28, 

 contained the following notice: 



In the pool below the dam (Upper Dam) a number of salmon have been taken. This is all the more 

 remarkable when it is remembered that only a few have ever been taken there before, though a good 

 many have been taken in the lakes above. 



Yet a continuous increase is evident and became pronounced in 1896. From then on 

 the references are not, as hitherto, from the interest in a few salmon taken but to the 

 large catches and large size of the fish. In Forest and Stream, July 11, 1896, a corre- 

 spondent wrote: 



The landlocked-salmon record at Rangeley, already referred to, is a remarkable one. The first 21 

 salmon taken by guests of the Rangeley Lake House, and almost within sight of the house, actually 

 weighed 135 pounds 2 ounces, an average of 6 pounds 7 ounces to the fish. Fifteen of the same fish 

 weighed 1 12 pounds 14 ounces, an average of 7 pounds 8 ounces. The catch of the above fish began May 

 7 and ended Jime 4. A great many large salmon have also been taken since. 



The predicted success of the introduction of landlocked salmon into the Rangeley 

 Lakes seems to have been consummated. In 1900 Forest and Stream, July 7, noted: 

 "Never before has Rangeley Lake seen such excellent fishing." The fish caught were 

 all salmon. In 1901, under date of May 26, a note from Upper Dam read: "A remark- 

 able feature is that almost as many salmon are being taken as trout. * * * While 



