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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
May 29, 1910 . — A school of young smelts was seen offshore in Broad Cove. 
Several good-sized yellow perch were seen lying quietly on the bottom below the 
place where the smelts were. 
June 7, 1910 . — George Moses reported a large school of smelts not far from shore, 
“gilling” and jumping from the water. Temperature of air was 50° and of surface 
water 51° F. 
June 12, 1910 . — In the notch off Loon Island and Harpers Point numerous 
schools of smelts, individuals of which were “popping” from the water, were seen- 
The fish apparently were about 4 or 5 inches long. They were over deep water 
some distance from shore. Another observer reported smelts schooling off the 
“Straight Shore.” 
May 29, 1916 . — The water was dead calm all the morning until 1.30 p. m. 
July 5, 1916— & large school of young smelts was observed behind the wharf 
and boathouse. They were still there on July 6, and a collection was made. 
The only other waters in which the present writer has seen smelts schooling at 
the surface was in Little Sebago Lake on August 6 and 7, 1900. There they were 
observed in large numbers and numerous schools of the very small smelts that occur 
there. They were pursued by white perch. On October 30 of the same year several 
schools of tiny smelts were observed at the head of Lake Auburn. In Sebago Lake 
it was possible usually to get near enough to the schools of fish to ascertain their 
identity, but not always. 
On September 11, 1908, off the northeast end of Fryes Island, many schools of 
small fish were observed near the point of the island, acting like the perch seen at 
Whites Bridge, mentioned later. These schools extended from among the bowlders, 
in comparatively shallow water, off into the lake toward Broad Cove. There were 
many fish but they could not be seen distinctly enough for positive identification; yet 
very probably in this case they were smelts, as some other larger fish were rising 
amongst them causing them to “rush.” While the writer has seen smelts thus 
attacked, he never saw yellow perch or white perch harassed in this manner by 
other fish. 
As smelts so frequently are seen schooling and are positively identified, one is 
prone to regard as smelts all schools of small fish when seen out in the open lake; 
but it has been found that such schools are not always composed of smelts. 
Off the lower end of Raymond Cape, Sebago Lake, on September 8, 1908, the 
present writer observed a small school of fish that acted like small smelts ; and in the 
bight above Whites Bridge and below Whites Point there were many schools, some 
large and some small, that behaved in a similar manner. Just below Whites Point 
one of these schools was approached near enough to ascertain that the fish were 
young yellow perch, apparently about l)/£ to 2 inches long. All of these schools were 
heading out into Jordan Bay. In the Connecticut Lakes, N. H., in 1904, similarly act- 
ing schools of small fish were found to be composed (in part, at least) of redfin shiners 
( Notropis cornutus ). 
On July 27, 1909, between the head of Fryes Island and the west shore of Ray- 
mond Cape, Sebago Lake, many small fish, perhaps 4 to 6 inches long, were seen 
breaking water. They did not appear to be smelts, although their behavior was 
