FOREST AND STREAM 
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FUTURE OF THE SUNAPEE TROUT. 
(Continued from page 1232) 
serious depredations on the trout tribe. And yet, 
for the delectation of a few heartless rodsters—• 
1 will not designate them as anglers—for an 
angler is a true sportsman and takes fish only in 
a chivalrous manner, never for the mere pleasure 
of killing, never when enciente or exhausted by 
procreation—I repeat, for the benefit of a hand¬ 
ful of narrow and self-seeking fishermen who 
had the necessary pull at Concord, the great 
mass of liberal people who are leaving ten mil¬ 
lion-dollars in the state of New Hampshire every 
summer and who are incontestably entitled to a 
measurable amount of pleasure with the rod— 
have been defrauded through witless laws from 
enjoying what they are asking for and what is 
due them—a little bass fishing. 
Thank heaven, it is now otherwise. Our com¬ 
mittee has steadily worked for reform and the 
open season for bass has been changed from 
June gth to July 1st—it ought to be July 15th. 
Every expert knows that black bass will rise to 
a fly any time of the year that they can see it. 
All through July and August they are caught 
elsewhere with the sleave silk and feathers. I 
have taken them on a fly at Sunapee in October. 
The reason why they do not respond to the cast 
of a Parmachenee Belle is that there are no bass 
to respond—they have been sacrificed to the 
greed of man. 
I am not a believer in the policy of disturbing 
natural conditions. A mistake has been made in 
planting so many foreign salmonidae in a lake 
where we have the two finest game and food 
fishes in America to protect and develop, namely,' 
the square-tailed brook trout and the aureolus \ 
or Alpine charr. The Chinook salmon,' which 
was planted in Lake Sunapee ten years ago, has 
been a failure. Perhaps not two dozens have 
been caught this last summer, the rank and file 
of them having succumbed, according to all ac¬ 
counts, to the saprolegnia disease. They are a 
voracious fish, and had they grown beyond the 
proportions of infancy would have wrought 
irreparable damage. Fortunately, the life of the 
Pacific salmon is limited by nature to five or six 
years. The enthusiastic admirers of its callow 
young on line and table, who hoped to change 
in a single decade the life-law of a hundred 
millennia, must admit their discomfiture. The 
lake is apparently cleared of this pest. 
Now, what is to be done about it all? It will 
taken seven or eight years to put Lake Sunapee 
back where it was and should be. Fish culture 
on the basis of its practice here for the last 
twenty years, is putrid to the medulla. Talk is 
draff cheap; al fresco luncheons are pleasant, but 
do not hatch fish. In few, if we care to stock 
this or any lake with brook trout and land-locked 
salmon, we must have suitable breeding and 
growing grounds, and these we have in Pike 
Brook, which enters the lake through Soo-Nipi 
Park. This brook was shamefully opened to 
the public on July 31, after we had stocked it 
and nursed it for years as a feeder of the lake; 
and on that day we estimate that 1,000 breeding 
trout were taken from its waters by twenty per¬ 
sons, to whom permission was given to desecrate 
it without regard to the rights and wishes of 
its owners. 
I arraign the authority that accorded such per¬ 
mission. I know one man who took from it 
on that day 107 brook trout, three of which 
weighed each over one pound. I went through 
this stream three days later and found it desti¬ 
tute of trout, except those hatched this last 
spring, but to my delight I saw that it was 
thoroughly stocked with the gammarus pulex, or 
fresh water shrimp, which I planted there at my 
own expense a number of years ago. When 
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HARD TO WAIT A MONTH. 
Mansfield, Wash., 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
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tion to your magazine. I enjoy reading the 
articles and ads that are given,, one in particular 
about getting the far ones at forty and fifty 
yards. We shoot what geese we get at eighty 
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