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so abundant as to have become a nuisance. Suckers, chubs and 

 other minnows were brought in by anglers for bait. The chubs 

 were carried from Twin lake. Crawfish were planted by some 

 angler who brought them from a distance and they are now very 

 abundant. 



Star lake derives its name from its numerous bays arranged 

 in something resembling a star. It covers about 640 acres and 

 has a maximum depth of over 100 feet. For the most part the 

 bottom drops off suddenly from the shores ; but there are a num- 

 ber of sand beaches on which the trout find spawning grounds. 

 There are a number of sandbars and some rock ledges ; but these 

 are not sufficiently extensive to furnish good spawning places for 

 all the fish. 



The lake has no inlets of any importance, and this makes it a 

 body of water difficult to stock. The only feasible course to be 

 followed by the Commission is to continue stocking the lake with 

 brown trout and rainbow trout, and to allow some of the land- 

 owners who are interested in the improvement of the fishing to 

 screen off certain small private bays as places of shelter for the 

 young trout, and to permit them to hold the fish in such bays until 

 they are large enough to take care of themselves. 



The lake trout is well enough established to maintain itself 

 without further stocking at present. 



Star lake is remarkably destitute of native water plants. It 

 contains a few white water lilies (introduced) and rather more 

 yellow lilies, little patches of horse tail and a plant resembling 

 eel grass but more robust. It would be a good plan to introduce 

 eel grass (Valimeria), and perhaps some other aquatic plants, 

 to provide additional shelter for young fish. 



The lake has no overflow except in freshet times, and then, I 

 am informed, only about four inches of water flows over a small 

 dam which has been placed at the outlet. I am told that this 

 overflow cannot go into Little river as we supposed, but is re- 

 ceived into a series of small ponds which have no outlet, and 

 which diminish greatly in volume in dry weather. 



There is no pollution by sewage, as the property-owners have 

 introduced cesspools and open tiles for conveying the liquid part 



