LAKE TROIT. 
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Prescott (1851, see synonymy) says that in Winnepesaukee they are not infrequently taken 
weighing twelve to fifteen pounds. The largest reported to have been taken weighed twenty- 
five pounds. In May, 1889, one weighing 29 pounds and 9 ounces, measuring 3 feet in length, 
was reported from Newfound Lake, Laconia. In May, 1892, a 21 -pound “lunge” and others 
from 6 to 10 pounds, were authentically recorded from the Connecticut Lakes the previous 
winter and one of 8 pounds in May. A 27-pound fish was recorded from Lake Paugus in 1906. 
Regarding the Maine togue, Adams (1873) says: “The average w'eight of the togue is 
seemingly about nine pounds but this may not be altogether correct. I have seen individuals 
weighing fifteen pounds, and fishermen and Indians speak of having captured togues from 
twenty-five pounds to thirty pounds, and even forty pounds, in weight.” 
In 1905, H. W. Rowe, publisher and editor of the Maine Sportsman, stated that the largest 
togue or Lake Trout of which he had any knowledge was caught during the preceding spring 
in Cold Spring Pond, Enfield. He said that he saw the fish only after it was dressed and stuffed 
but it was a ‘whopper,’ and was alleged to have weighed 31 pounds when taken from the water, 
and 242 pounds after having the entrails removed. 
Records of the catches of togue in the Maine Sportsman from 1894 to 1908 show the follow- 
ing. The largest was taken in Moosehead Lake in 1897 and weighed 32 pounds. In the same 
lake, two of 25 pounds each were recorded in 1897 and 1907, respectively; one of 22 pounds was 
taken in 1908 and another of 21 in 1895. The other records ranged from 11 to 19 pounds. 
The next largest was the one previously mentioned of 31 pounds from Cold Spring Pond. One 
of 30 pounds, which measured 35| inches in length, was caught in Munsungan Pond in 1899. 
One of 25 pounds was taken in Big Spencer Pond in 1908, and one of 24 pounds was caught in 
Schoodic Lake in 1897. No others reached 20 pounds, but they ranged from lOi to 19^ pounds. 
Variations. 
The Fishery Industries says that every lake of northern New York and New England has 
its own variety, wliich the local angler stoutly maintains to be a different species from that found 
in the next township. Some are black, some brown with crimson spots, some gray with delicate 
reticulations like the pickerel. There is also a great variation in the proportions of fish not 
only from different waters but sometimes from the same body of water. The popular and 
scientific names which have been given to this species are due to the wonderful tendency to 
variation in size, shape, and coloration. 
The Forest and Stream of October 30, 1890, says: “Mr. Walter Aiken has informed us that 
the lake trout in Winnipiseogee Lake, N. H., are usually long and lank fish, with flesh of a pale 
color and an inferior taste, yet the landlocked smelt, which is considered one of the best food 
species for the lake trout to feed upon, is abundant in the lake. In Newfound Lake, according 
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