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Any lake resort within a few hours’ run of the 
big cities, that could furnish good fishing of this 
kind would be reasonably certain to derive an 
immense revenue from this source. The local 
citizens of such places do not seem to realize the 
valuable financial benefits their communities 
would receive, or they would certainly make 
more of an effort to see these defects remedied. 
The trout and salmon fishing in any lake that is 
suitable for the purpose, can be built up and 
maintained at a high standard if the people who 
should be interested, will go about it in the right 
manner. The anglers of the State of New York 
should not have to depend on the uncertain fish¬ 
ing that might be built up in artificial reservoirs 
or ponds, when the state already contains dozens 
of the finest natural trout and salmon waters in 
the world. It is a crying shame the way most 
of these waters have been neglected. Should 
there be any need for thousands of our anglers 
traveling away up into Maine and Canada when 
we have within our own borders such bodies of 
water as Lake George, Keuka, Seneca. Cayuga, 
and hundreds of others? What does the fishing 
amount to in any of the public lakes of the Adi- 
rondacks? Nothing! except to a handful of 
guides for a week or so in the spring. There is 
no reason at all why any of these lakes should 
not be teeming with splendid game-fishes and 
furnishing exciting sport to thousands of enthu¬ 
siastic anglers. The present state of affairs can¬ 
not be blamed on the hard working Conserva¬ 
tion Commission or at least on that part of it 
devoted to fish culture. They have done wonder¬ 
ful work with their limited appropriations and 
inadequate working force, and they have turned 
out enough fish from their hatcheries during the 
past ten years to stock the entire United States, 
could they have been properly planted. But they 
have neither the time, the money, nor the trained 
experts to spare, to follow up the consignments 
of fish and see that they are placed only in suit¬ 
able environments. Neither have they the room 
at their hatcheries to carry the fish for more 
than a few weeks after hatching. To turn out 
these small fish into most of the waters of this 
state, is almost exactly like dumping them into 
the middle of the road. If the time ever comes 
when scientific work of this kind shall be re¬ 
moved from the jurisdiction of political whim- 
sters, and the entire work carried out by well- 
paid trained men, then, and only then, will the 
anglers begin to realize proper results from the 
money expended for this purpose. 
About the only way that good fishing can be 
built up at the present time, is for all the per¬ 
sons interested in a certain body of water, to 
get together and form a fishing association. Have 
wide-awake officers at the head of this associa¬ 
tion, ones who shall be able to explain to pro¬ 
spective members why they should belong to, and 
help support such an undertaking. In the imme¬ 
diate vicinity of nearly every lake, there is usu¬ 
ally some place where a number of pools could 
be constructed at small expense, and where with 
a good water supply thousands of fish could be 
carried until they were of a size large enough to 
plant safely. This is being done at the present 
time at several New England lake resorts with 
splendid results. The State and Federal Fish 
Commissions have always been only too glad to 
co-operate with such associations, and furnish 
them with quantities of small fish for this pur¬ 
pose, providing their applications call for such 
varieties as the Commission knows will do well 
in said waters. 
There are several varieties of trout that will 
under favorable conditions grow to a good size, 
furnish excellent fishing all summer long, and 
which are much harder fighters when hooked 
than either the brook, brown, or the lake trout. 
These are the steelhead. the rainbow, and the 
cut-throat trouts of the Pacific slope. The steel- 
head, I consider the finest fresh-water game va¬ 
riety found in North America. I will not repeat 
my reasons for so believing, for I have already 
given them to readers of Forest and Stream.* 
The rainbow and the steelhead are not desirable 
for planting in streams, for they are both mi¬ 
gratory, and will seek salt water unless prevented 
from doing so by screening or racking. This 
cannot be successfully done in a stream, but the 
outlets of most lakes can be effectively screened 
so that no fish will escape. 
I am glad that Mr. Steenrod has brought up 
this question of better fishing in New York, and 
personally I am willing to push as hard as the 
next fellow to keep the thing a rolling. 
W. M. Keil. 
*The land-locked steelhead trout, December 9, 1911; 
the Steelhead vs. the Chinook, April 4, 1914. 
