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contained large numbers of perch and pickerel and some bass, he gave his 

 consent to the introduction of bass in accordance with section 114 of the 

 Forest, Fish and Game Law of 1909. 



There is a good deal of dissatisfaction with the angling conditions in 

 certain lakes of the Adirondacks. Judge Devendorf, for instance, wrote 

 about the state of affairs at Fourth Lake of the Fulton Chain as follows: 



" We have absolutely no fishing in these lakes during the vacation 

 months. It is true there are a few speckled trout caught about the inlets 

 early in the season and some salmon trout. That fishing is all over long 

 before 90 per cent of the campers, cottage owners and boarders come to 

 the lakes, and from that time on there is no fishing whatever excepting 

 for small mouthed black bass, which are extremely difficult to catch and do 

 not provide for the average individual any fishing whatever. I am firmly 

 of the opinion that these lakes ought to be stocked by the State with some 

 kind of fish that would be desirable for the many who visit there each year. 

 There are hundreds of thousands of dollars invested along these lakes in 

 hotels, boarding-houses, camps, cottages and their appurtenances and there 

 is plenty of good water. All we lack is the fish. * * * Considering 

 the insignificant number of speckled trout inhabiting these waters and the 

 few white fish there, it seems to me that they ought not to be seriously 

 taken into consideration in determining the question as to with what fish 

 these lakes should be stocked." 



Tom Cod 

 On December 2 2d Foreman Walters obtained forty-five quarts of torn 

 cod eggs at Good Ground, L. I. These eggs are about one-fifteenth of an 

 inch in diameter and count about 6,000 to the fluid ounce. At latest 

 reports Mr. Walters had sixty millions of the eggs, which were carried across 

 the island to the Cold Spring Harbor hatchery. 



Winter Flat Fish 

 In 1909 the first flat fish eggs were obtained by Foreman Charles H. 

 Walters on March 9th. The hatching period of these eggs was about 

 seventeen days. 



Albany, December 27, 1909. 



