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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 27, 1911. 
Salmonidae in Lake Michigan. 
Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C., May 
12 .—Editor Forest and Stream: In response to 
your recent request for information regarding 
the species of Saltnonidee, which have been 
planted in Lake Michigan, the following data 
have been gotten together. 
The following tables record the plants of cer¬ 
tain species of Saltnonidee other than lake trout 
and whitefish in waters tributary to Lake Michi¬ 
gan as shown by United States and Michigan 
State reports: 
ATLANTIC SALMON. 
Number 
Waters. 
Date. 
Deposited. 
Calumet River, III. 
..May 12, 1874 
17, W0 
Grand River . 
1872 
3,250 
Grand River . 
1873 
1.500 
St. Joseph River. 
1872 
3.250 
St. Joseph River. 
1873 
4,500 
Manistee River . 
1S72 
3,250 
Manistee River . 
1873 
1.500 
Manistee River, South 
Branch 
..May 20, 1873 
3,000 
Menominee River . 
1872 
7,000 
Menominee River . 
1873 
7,000 
Salmon Creek . 
..May 19, 1874 
40,000 
Muskegon River . 
..May 19, 1873 
3,000 
Kalamazoo River . 
..May 26, 1873 
2,000 
Pine River . 
.. May 14, 1874 
40,000 
Total . 
LANDLOCKED 
SALMON. 
Marquette River . 
. 1895 
17,500 
Raldwin Creek . 
. 1895 
17.500 
Baldwin Creek . 
. 1898 
10,000 
Baldwin Creek . 
. 1900 
4.335 
Dowagiac Creek . 
..June 20. 1874 
3.000 
Pentwater River . 
1882 
1,500 
Total . 
.... 53,835 
STEELHEAD 
TROUT. 
Baldwin Creek . 
. 1901 
30,000 
Boardman River . 
10,000 
Bear Creek . 
10,000 
Cannon Creek . 
5,000 
Pere Marquette River . 
. 1.897 
15.000 
Pere Marquette River.. 
. 1S98 
13,000 
Pere Marquette River.. 
. 1905 
10,000 
Pere Marquette River., 
. 1907 
8,000 
Pere Marquette River, 
South 
Fork.... 1898 
500 
Pere Marquette River, 
South 
Fork.... 1905 
500 
Pere Marquette River, 
North 
Fork.... 1902 
10,000 
Pere Marquette River, 
Mid. Fork. 1898 
1.000 
Little Manistee River.. 
. 1898 
10,000 
Little Au Sable River. 
. 1901 
10,000 
Lake Muskegon . 
. 1908 
14,000 
Muskegon River . 
. 1907 
3,000 
Thunder Bay River .. 
. 1902 
40.000 
Total . 
.... 190,000 
CHINOOK 
TROUT. 
Cullom’s Creek . 
..Dec. 22, 1874 
10,000 
(Irand River . 
..Dec. 30, 1873 
12,000 
Grand River . 
..Dec. 21, 1876 
27.5(H) 
Grand River . 
... Tan. 30, 1879 
30,000 
Hersev River . 
..Dec. 18, 1874 
50.000 
Indian Creek . 
..Dec. 8, 1875 
15,000 
Maple River . 
..Dec. 25, 1875 
6,000 
Manistee River . 
...Feb. 7, 1879 
25,000 
Menominee Lake . 
...Tan. 17, 1876 
30,000 
Mill Stream . 
1S79 
10,000 
Peavine Creek . 
15,000 
Peavine Creek . 
1879 
5,000 
Pine Creek . 
1879 
10,000 
Pokagon Creek . 
...Tan. 16, 1874 
7,000 
Pokagon Creek . 
...Dec. 9,1875 
10,000 
Fokagon Creek . 
1878 
3,500 
Pokagon Creek . 
1879 
10.00O 
St. loseph River . 
... I >ec. 11, 1875 
33,000 
St. loseph River. 
...Tan. 3, 1876 
8,000 
St. Joseph River . 
...Jan. 23, 1879 
20,000 
Spring Brook Creek... 
... Dec. 26, 1874 
40,000 
Williams Creek . 
...Dec. 8,1875 
8,000 
Fox River, Ill. 
...Dec. 18, 1874 
20,000 
White River, Ind. 
...Dec. 16, 1874 
16,000 
Total . 
. 421,000 
Grand total: 
Atlantic salmon .. 
136.250 
Landlocked salmon . 
53.S35 
Chinook salmon .. 
421,000 
Steelhead trout .. 
190,000 
801,085 
So far as can be determined from the Govern¬ 
ment reports, together with those of the Michi¬ 
gan Fish Commission (Wisconsin reports not ex¬ 
amined), the only species of Saltnonidee planted 
directly in the waters of Lake Michigan are 
whitefish and lake trout. In addition there have 
been plants of other members of the same family 
in tributary waters, included among which are 
the following: Atlantic salmon, landlocked sal¬ 
mon, chinook salmon, steelhead trout, brook 
trout, brown trout, black-spotted trout, Loch 
Leven trout and grayling. 
Most of these plants are shown in the at¬ 
tached table. 
I have seen a number of specimens taken in 
Lake Michigan, Lake Huron or Lake Erie, and 
believed by the captor to have been salmon of 
some sort. Everyone which I have seen, how¬ 
ever, proved to be the steelhead (Salmo gaird- 
neri). That species is the one which seems to 
do the best in those lakes. I have not seen any 
specimens of any of the other introduced species. 
Barton W. Evermann. 
Mr. Lawrence’s Trout. 
New York City, May 19. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I notice in your issue of May 20, 1911, 
a communication from Dr. James A. Henshall 
in answer to my query in your issue of May 6. 
‘‘Can you inform me whether artificially raised 
brook trout, which from the fact that the gills 
show beyond the gill covers—are evidently not 
in the best of health—should be avoided as 
food ?” asserts “that the trouble is not a disease, 
but a deformity, or rather a malformation, and 
that otherwise the fish are healthy and not un¬ 
wholesome.” 
In the fish referred to by me there was no 
sign of any malformation. The gill covers ap¬ 
peared to be perfect, but the gills extended a 
quarter of an inch beyond the depressions into 
which the gill covers would naturally rest, and 
to my mind showed an inflamed state of the 
gills, probably due to ill health. The fish were 
sluggish and poor fighters when hooked and were 
put into Carman’s River in the late summer or 
fall of 1910. Those I took—some four or five— 
ran from a quarter to a third of a pound. 
I am glad to be informed that whatever the 
cause of the trouble the wholesome qualities of 
the fish are not affected. 
Robt. B. Lawrence. 
Netting Unhooked Trout. 
An article entitled “On the Tusket River,” 
printed in Forest and Stream last summer, and 
written by Thomas A. Fulton, of this city, has 
called out from Vice Chancellor Eugene Steven¬ 
son, of New Jersey, a very interesting letter to 
Mr. Fulton, which we believe will be read with 
great interest by other anglers. Judge Steven¬ 
son says: 
“I am much obliged to you for sending me 
Forest and Stream with your fishing letter 
from Nova Scotia, which has both interested 
and instructed me. I did not know that there 
was such a wilderness in Nova Scotia as you 
describe. The incident of your guide netting 
two trout when you had only hooked one has 
occurred in the experience of a good many fish¬ 
ermen; more frequently I think when the fish 
are getting ready to spawn. The hooked fish 
is followed around by its mate, and when the 
hooked fish is brought to the net, both are 
dipped up. 
“Some years ago I was in a boat with Judge 
Bunn, of St. Paul, who was fishing the Nepigon 
River at Robinson’s Pool, at the edge of a mighty 
rush of water. He was fishing—as I think most 
sensible Nepigon fishermen do, in such heavy 
water when the fish are large—wfith one fly only. 
He hooked a fine big trout weighing four or 
five pounds, perhaps more, and gradually got 
him out of the rough water, as his canoe was 
backed to the shore. The big fish’s mate fol¬ 
lowed him or her into the still water where 
both were in plain sight, and it looked as if the 
mate was just about as tired out as the fish 
which had been doing the fighting. The guide 
without any difficulty, with one dip of the net, 
took up first the mate and next the fish on the 
fly, just as he would have done if there had 
been two flies with a trout on each. I have 
very often seen the mate follow the fish which 
I was p'aying, but never had both fish scooped 
up at the same time.” 
Early Bass Fishing. 
The early black bass fishing at Greenwood 
Lake usually consists of tempting the nesting 
bass along the shallow shores to snap at a fly, 
minnow or small spoon cast directly into’ the 
nests. It is a shame to take them in this way, 
but there is nothing in the law to prevent it, 
owing to the fact that the bass season opens 
about a month too early to give the bass a 
chance to breed. When a fish is taken from its 
nest the eggs are either eaten by other creatures 
or die from lack of cleaning. A man who takes 
a fish in this manner is swinish, but there are 
lots of angling swine. 
An effort to exchange live pickerel for live 
bass is being made by the Newark Bait- and Fly- 
Casting Club, which has leased the Fox Hills 
Lakes at Denville. Some of the members were 
up there recently looking over the grounds and 
water and they found many bass and pickerel, 
but it was agreed that no bass should be taken 
until after the spawning season, and that the 
catch per angler should not be more than five 
fish per day. The three lakes are under the 
care of a vigorous keeper and a supply of bait 
will be maintained during the season. Each 
member of the organization pays $10 per year 
for the privilege of fishing in the lakes.—Newark 
Call. 
North Shore Casting Club. 
Chicago, Ill., May 15 —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The scores for May 13 follow: 
Lambert ... 
Moeng . 
Hall . 
Buntz . 
Lyons . 
Waters . 
Hinterleitner 
Unkefer .... 
Mick . 
Marshall .... 
Ercanbrock 
Forsyth .... 
Cramer . 
04.2 
91.2 
97.7 
9S.0 
97.4 
87.5 
98.9 
97.2 
91.9 
98.4 
96.2 
97.5 
97.3 
97.6 
96.8 
98.2 
97.3 
9S.6 
9S.6 
C. O. Dorchester, Sec’y-Treas. 
