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BULLETIN OP THE BUREAU OP FISHERIES 
I have taken fair-size smelt from the mouths and throats of wall-eyed pike all through summer 
and fall months. 
Again he says: “Smelt are the natural food of wall-eyes in Champlain and make 
the best of bait.” Also, previously quoted in the same connection is the statement 
of “Ferris” (1896), who wrote that he had many times observed that after getting 
them in the boat they would disgorge one or more smelts. 
YELLOW PERCH (PERCA FLAVESCENS) 
The present writer made the following observations in Sebago Lake and vicinity 
on June 29, 1907. A yellow perch of the estimated weight of 1 pound, caught in 
Thomas Pond, contained four smelts, each about 4 inches long. September 10, 1907, 
in a cove perch were seen pursuing schools of young smelts at or near the surface. 
Five 10-inch perch were caught and were found to be gorged with these little smelts. 
From five perch 99 smelts were taken and from one 10 smelts were taken, making a 
total of 109 young smelts from 6 perch. These young smelts averaged nearly 1 % 
inches in length. The perch were swimming with their backs out of water amongst 
the smelt, making a smacking sound as they took the smelt. 
On September 2, 1908, Ben Jones, superintendent of the State fish-cultural weirs 
in Crooked River, stated that he had seen yellow perch devouring young smelts just 
above the weir in the spring of the year, when, as he judged, the smelts were about 
1 inch long. 
On August 5, 1909, an 1 1 J^-inch perch was found to contain many partly 
digested young smelts. On August 18 of the same year a large school of yellow perch 
was seen breaking the surface and making the smacking sound mentioned above. 
Three were caught. They were found to have been feeding upon young smelts and 
were gorged with them. On June 4, 1910, a 12-inch perch caught in 65 to 80 feet of 
water contained a partly digested smelt about 3 inches long. A 13-inch perch taken 
in the same place contained two smelts 2 and 2}/% inches long, respectively, tails 
excluded. 
WHITE PERCH (MORONE AMERICANA) 
On August 7, 1900, at Little Sebago Lake, Me., white perch were observed by 
the present writer to be pursuing and feeding upon small smelts schooling at the 
surface. 
BURBOT (LOTA MACULOSA) 
On July 30, 1903, George Moses told the present writer that he had often caught 
“cusk” that contained smelts; and, again, in October, 1906, he said that he had 
found them “full of smelts.” 
On August 9, 1907, a “cusk” 16J4 inches long, caught by the present writer in 
Sebago Lake, after being taken into the boat disgorged one smelt slightly over 1 inch 
long. Another, on August 21, disgorged a partly digested smelt that before inges- 
tion probably had been between 4 and 5 inches long. 
On August 14, 1908, while fishing for smelts, the present writer caught a “cusk” 
on smelt bait which weighed 2 pounds 1 ounce. It disgorged many young smelts 
from 2 to 2 y 2 inches long. A “cusk” weighing 3 pounds, caught on July 30, 1909, 
