1914
January 14
(No 2)
[January 14, 1914]

Horned Pouts in L. Umbagog [Lake Umbagog]

  Blanchard claims to have introduced Horned Pouts
into Lake Umbagog "thirteen years ago" ie in 1900 or 1901.
The lake was swarming with them when I was last
there in June 1909 but all I saw then were no more 
than one-half grown. Blanchard says that they are 
now mostly of maximum size and so numerous &
greedy that they may be caught almost anywhere as
fast as they can be taken off the hook & it rebaited.
Where the refuse from Denton's camp is thrown into
the lake they assemble to feast on it by thousands
so that the water is fairly black with them. Thus
far they have increased steadily & continuously with
no set backs. 

Pickerel epidemics

  Blanchard asserts that the epidemics which
annihilate the Pickerel so completely occur regularly every
seventh year and that the last one happened in 1912.
He failed to find a single Pickerel in the lake last summer.