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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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it is not debarred from leaving the lake and descend-ing the river Saguenay to the St. Lawrence, and is there-fore not land-locked; and, as I said before, I can see nodifference whatever between this species and the so-calledland-locked salmon of the Schoodic Lakes, called by sci-entists Schoodic or Sebago salmon, which is also not land-locked. * * Regarding- the Schoodic salmon Mr. George A. Boardman, of Calais, a gen-tleman well known as a good observer, writes me: I do not regard the fish aland-locked salmon, for the water must always have had an outlet to the sea, andthe fish could go if they choose; and in fact, when I was a boy, sixty years ago,they were abundant in the river even to the salt water. Per contra, Hon. E. M. Stilwell, Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for theState of Maine, writes me: There has been an increase in the size of the fishsince 1883, according to the record kept by Charles G. Atkins, the Government super-intendent of the hatchery at Grand Lake Stream:
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5 o > < f- y, u 432 With Fly-Rod and Camera, *I believe that the winnlnish and the so-called land-locked salmon recuperate and change exactly like the seasalmon; but instead of doing- it in the sea they probablyrecover their condition and color in the great lakes, wherethey reside. I say probably, because it is not absolutelyproved that they do not visit the salt water, although Iam of the firm belief that they do not, and this beliefis founded on the great amount of information that I havebeen able to derive from various sources. Both the win- 3.00 19.10 3.85 21.05 3.81 20.60 3-46 20.50 3-79 20.10 s. as the average wei ?ht of the fish caught In 1883, 28g male fish averaged 3.20 lbs. and measured 20.00 in. 314 female 1885, 198 male 577 female 1886, 247 male 503 female during the fly-fishing season. I have heard of fish of 5 and even 6 lbs. being takenthrough the ice. At Sebago last year we had at our spawning works one male land-locked salmon of 27 lbs.; several females of 25 lb

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