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eighth to one quarter of a pound, and they seem to grow smaller each year, but it is certain 
that there are larger ones in the lake for the skeleton of a large one was washed up on the shore. 
Mrs. Clark told the present writer that only a few years ago she had caught fish of one and a 
half, and even two pounds, as they were making their way on to the spawning grounds, but in 
late years no large fish had been seen and that the fish were growing smaller and scarcer. 
Fishing Season and Method of Capture. 
Bigelow stated that in deep water they could be taken only in winter through the ice 
but generally in spawning time they could be taken on baited hook. In winter the only bait 
used was said to be minnows but in October they were caught with grasshoppers, angleworms, 
and artificial flies, and when those failed they would often take their own spawn, dried a little 
in the sun. Another means mentioned by Bigelow was by snare or grapple, methods now 
prohibited. 
Mr. Cheney stated {1. c.) that Miss Dwight informed him that in the spring only deep-water 
fishing was possible, until about two or three weeks after the ice left the lake, when they could 
be taken on very small flies, with drawn gut leaders. 
Mr. Robinson wrote Dr. Evermann (1. c.) that for only about ten days, usually beginning 
about May 10th, they could be caught and that the only successful bait was the angleworm. 
He stated that he never heard of their taking the fly. 
Mr. Mason wrote {1. c.) that the present open season was from May 20th to the 1st of 
August and added that if the season opened a month earlier he had no doubt but that more 
trout would be caught. He stated that worms are the most usual bait but some use flies and 
others shiners. Mrs. Clark said that she used to catch the larger fish on flies. 
Mr. Mason said that after the fish had departed to deep water, following the advent of 
warm weather and the departure of the black flies, one could fish from that time on to the begin- 
ning of close season with no catch at all. 
Origin. 
In the American Angler, July 30, 1887, J. D. Q. (Dr. John D. Quackenbos) writing of the 
possible origin of the “white trout” of Sunapee Lake said: “Dr. Bean has recently advanced 
other theories of its origin, which may be interesting to your readers. The one is that the so- 
called Oquassa may prove to be the same as the little Dublin Pond Trout, which, perhaps, is 
more widely distributed than has been supposed; but the Dubhn Pond Trout, like the Blue- 
back in Maine, always remains little, and the arguments that are adverse to the one theory of 
origin must be equally antagonistic to the other.” 
