File:Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries and Game for the Year Ending November 30, 1918 (1918) (14597040469).jpg

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Title: Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries and Game for the Year Ending November 30, 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Commissioners of Fisheries and Game
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ence at Long Pond, Plymouth. About the tenth of August I made my first attempt at salmon fishing. I used a light steel rod such as I use for pickerel fishing and used yellow perch for a trolling bait. I got two strikes and landed both fish; the first one was a hump backed and weighed 3f pounds. The next one was a fine specimen weighing 7f pounds. This finished what to me was a very satisfactory day. August 23 I tried it again fishing the same way. Only had one strike and after a splendid fight I landed a 12-pounder which I had mounted and it hangs in my office. I want to congratulate the Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission on their success in stocking Massachusetts waters with this splendid game fish and I believe the sportsmen appreciate the efforts that are being made in their behalf. I have been informed that the salmon will not breed in Long Pond but I want to say that while fishing for perch for bait I caught a little salmon about four inches long, which makes me think that some of them do
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1918.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT —Xo. 25. 129 breed in the ix)nd. In closing I want to register my protest against icefishing which I believe does more to hurt tho sport of real fishing than anything else. F. C. WiLMARTH. Attleboro, Mass., Dec. 31, 1918. Permits to fish Long Pond, Plymouth, during close season,for scientific purposes, were issued to — Ernest L. Bassett, Bournedale. Homer W. Hervey, New Bedford. W. Kempton Read, New Bedford. Dr. W. H. Thayer, New Bedford. The reports from Dr. Thayer and )\Jr. Hervey follow: — Report of Dr. William H. Thayer. The spring of 1918 found me determined to make a careful study of the Chinook salmon, the limited fishing of 1917 having taught me that this fish when introduced into our ponds possesses habits dissimilar to the Sebago salmon as found in more northern waters. Having, for years, fished the landlocked salmon in Maine and Canadian waters, I began in the most approved style, — a smelt laced on a single hook in such fashion that it would spin whe

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