FOREST AND STREAM 
685 
Live Notes 
From The Field 
Being Weekly Reports 
From Our Local Correspondents 
The Orange Lake Fish Protective Association 
of Newburgh, N. Y., has made application for 
incorporation, and expects its certificate from 
the Secretary of State this week. The associa¬ 
tion already has a membership of (between 300 
and 350, and expects to have more than 500 be¬ 
fore the end of the season. It proposes to stock 
Orange Lake, six miles from Newburgh, in Or¬ 
ange County, N. Y. 
Difficulty was experienced in getting a certi¬ 
ficate of incorporation under the name as given 
above, on the ground that a certificate had been 
granted to a corporation of exactly the same 
name twenty-five years before, to a day, which 
was never surrendered. Another name was to 
have been selected, but it was learned that any 
surviving incorporator of the first association 
could assign the certificate of the old association 
to the new. Then began a search for the old 
certificate and for surviving incorporators. The 
instrument has not been found yet. 
Among the incorporators of the first associa¬ 
tion were such well known sportsmen as Com¬ 
modore Harry Higginson of the Orange Lake 
Ice Yacht Club; Dr. Willet Kidd, for many years 
game protector for the district; James S. Taylor, 
wealthy follower of many kinds of sport ; 
George, “Boxer” Taggart and Robert Kernahan, 
one of the best known men locally in sporting 
circles a generation ago, and Edmund Carter. 
The last alone has survived. He expressed a 
willingness to have the work of the parent or¬ 
ganization carried on by the younger one, but 
was powerless to transfer the certificate of in¬ 
corporation because it could not be found. Then 
an action was begun in the Supreme Court, and 
the charter of the old association was declared 
forfeited, and the name approved for the new. 
The association has already expended $180 in 
the construction of a dam and screens at the out¬ 
let of Orange Lake, and will lay out $150 enlarg¬ 
ing the screens already built. Plans have already 
been drawn. 
Fingerlings and fry to the number of 2,000,000 
have been promised from the state hatcheries, 
owing to the efforts of George E. Mould, John 
Rothery, Assemblyman James B. Montgomery 
and others, and Congressman Edmund Platt has 
been promised 100,000 more from Washington. 
The fingerlings and fry from the state hatcher¬ 
ies include black bass, pike-perch, yellow perch, 
white perch, and rock bass. 
The pike-perch, particularly, promise good 
sport in a short time. It is expected that they 
will reach the weight of two pounds in two years 
and in six years from six to eight pounds. In 
lakes the size of Orange Lake, one and one-half 
miles long by three-quarters of a mile wide, the 
fish grow to the size of only about eight pounds, 
whereas in larger lakes they go as heavy as 
eighteen or twenty pounds. In four or five years 
the lake promises to be one of the best in the 
State. 
The directors of the new association are Silas 
Griggs, John Rothery, Silas H. Beers, William 
Merritt and Fred Kernahan, a son of Robert 
Kernahan of the old association. Harry Kerna¬ 
han, another son, is the president of 
the association The other officers are: 
James P. Walls, financial secretary; George 
E. Mould, treasurer; Frank J. Steen, of Walden, 
William Tibbs, of Newburgh and Peter Gillen, 
of Orange Lake, auditing committee. 
The members had planned to seine bass from 
the Hudson River to place in the lake, but are un¬ 
able to get the permission of the Conservation 
Commission. The Commission 'has, however, 
given them the names of persons from whom 
they can buy two-pound bass; and a number will 
be secured in this way. 
Assemblyman Montgomery has also secured 
for the association the promise of thirty-six full 
grown pheasants, which will be liberated near 
the first of August, and of more than 200 
pheasants’ eggs, which will be ready for hatching 
and liberating soon. The association plans to 
embark extensively in the protection of game 
birds and in stocking the nearby forests with 
suitable game birds as they can be secured. In 
this it will be encouraged and helped by the New¬ 
burgh Gun and Rifle Club, an organization which 
has its own club-house and traps on the out¬ 
skirts of Newburgh, and which plans greater 
activity in game bird shooting. It, too, is a new 
organization but has more than 100 members, 
and has conducted a very successful year of trap 
shooting contests and exhibitions. 
ICE OUT ON NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES. 
Concord, N. H., May 4, 1914. 
Notwithstanding unseasonable cold and rainy 
weather, which threatened to make late the ap¬ 
pearance of right conditions in New Hampshire 
for salmon and trout fishing, the season opened 
this week under auspices which promise well for 
four or five months of good sport. 
The ice went out of the three great lakes, 
Winnipesaukee, Sunapee and Newfound, last 
week, ending the period of “watchful waiting” 
of sportsmen who appeared in unusual force, 
especially at Sunapee. 
The record of catches in past years has made 
Sunapee the mecca of New England sporting 
fishermen and that of 1913 outstripped in results 
that of all preceding seasons. 
Of the more than 5,000 salmon taken from its 
waters, says an authority, most were Chinook 
salmon that came from the Columbia river on 
the Pacific coast. The average size of fish 
was three to five pounds, and the total catch 
would weigh over seven tons. 
As soon as the ice is out, the fish are taken 
by trolling from row boats and power boats, 
live smelts being used as the principal bait. 
When the water begins to get warm about the 
first of June, the fishing has to be done deep, and 
most of the salmon are taken from then on by 
still fishing. 
The record Chinook taken in Lake Sunapee 
weighed nearly 20 pounds. It was mounted, and 
is now among the collection of New England 
food and game fish in the Science Museum at 
Springfield, Mass. Several specimens of these 
fish weighing from 14 to 16 pounds have been 
taken by anglers. 
In the past three years the number of salmon 
taken at Lake Sunapee has increased greatly. 
In 1911 about 500 were taken, in 1912 about 1,500 
and in 1913 about 5,000. 
The limit allowed to a boat in one day is six 
fish. Several persons had to stop fishing last 
spring after two or three hours’ sport, as they 
had secured their limit. 
The reason for the extraordinary sport at 
Sunapee is the fact that the people who are in¬ 
terested in the lake formed a Fishing Association 
for the sole purpose of “better fishing.” 
The association’s executive committee is com¬ 
posed of Allen Hollis, chairman. Concord; Ozora 
S. Davis, Chicago, Ill.; George M. Hendee, Wil¬ 
liam E. Gilbert, Henry L. Bowles, Springfield, 
Mass.; William A. Dunning, Charles R. Kearns, 
New York; Perley I. Graves, Sunapee; Freder¬ 
ick G. King, Boston. 
George H. Graham, one of the commissioners 
of the Massachusetts State board of fisheries 
and game, is secretary of the association. 
One of the principal reasons of the rapid 
growth of trout and salmon in Lake Sunapee is 
the fact that there are immense quantities of 
land-locked smelts in the lake. A few years ago 
they were so plentiful that fishermen complained 
that they could not catch the fish, as the fish had 
all the smelts they could eat, and so would not 
take what was offered them by anglers. 
About this time, the association decided to 
plant large numbers of salmon and trout to eat 
up the smelts. The plan seems to be working 
as was expected. 
These Chinoock salmon furnish great sport. 
They are about as gamey as the Sebago salmon, 
and it often takes the angler a long time to kill 
his fish after he has hooked it. The first 
Chinook salmon were planted in Lake Sunapee 
in 1904. Previous to 1909, the fish were mostly 
planted as fry, in the spring or early summer, 
when the shores were lined with black bass. 
Since 1909 all of the fish have been placed in 
