Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
Maine Fish and Game Notes.

Will and Allen Eustis of Freeman,
caught 136 trout one day recently.
George Whitehouse. the veteran hunter
of East Stoneham, recently caught TWO
bears.
A. I. Small at North Lubec, took 1900
large pollock at his weir, one day re-
Gently.
There have been brought into Portland
SO far this season by the different fisher
men, POS swordiish.
Some fishermen caught "a sunfish weigh
ing 1900 pounds off 70O-acre island, the
other day and have since had the mon
ster on exhibition at Northport.
The porgie business is just now at its
top notch" and the Round Pond Co. Is
making a good deal of oil and scrap. Five
steamers are fishing for the works and
200 men are employed.
George Howard of Ellsworth, while
fishing near the lower dam of Union river
recently, caught a fine salmon weighing
four pounds. This is not a locality where
salmon are found and there is much spec
uladion as to where this one came from.
Mackerel are seemingly scarce. this
season; but few have been captured in
the weirs Shad that were reported to
thinning out, while the herring are not
much better, writes Knox county cor
respondent.
When one realizes that between 800 and
900 hogsheads of herring per day are
necessary to keep the factories in East
port at work, 1t seems almost Incredible
that the little fishes can be prolific
enough to supply such a vast drain on
their numbers.
A bonita a big fish which usually
hunts in schools and frequently leaps sew
eral feet out of water recently jumped
of it's own accord into the dory of a fish
erman who was fishing near Biddeford
Pool. Fishermen at the Pool say 1t is the
first time they ever heard of bonita
jumping into a boat. Herring have been
known to do it, but a 15-pound bonita
never
President Frank Thompson of the Phil
adelpha Railroad, on his recent Resti-
gouche fishing trip, when he was accom-
panied by his daughter two sons and two
ladies, had the largest retinue. 1t is be-
lieved, that ever went up the Restigouche.
There were Is men, II horses, three scows
and five boats employed on the trip. all
under the management of Restigouche
expert. The party was up II days and
.eccessful in catching 40 salmon.
Two trout were caught in the Jennings
rock in Garland recently, neither OF
which had any of the spots so character
istic of the speckled trout. There was
every reason to believe that the fish be-
longed to the trout family, but the proper
name for them was what puzzled several
who thought themselves good judges In
such matters. One of the specimens after
time found its way to the United States
fish commission station at Green lake and
Edward E. Race. superintendent of the
station, has this to say of it: "Undoubt-
eddy this is good specimen of a hybrid
between our native brook and Loeb
Leven trout The Loeb Leven trout
(Salmo levenensis) are very plentiful ir
the south of Scotland and north of Eng
land, and We're introduced into the
United States and liberated in Shoshont
lake in the Yellowstone National Park
and elsewhere. by the United States fish
commission. Since that time they have
been successfully propagated at this ant
other stations operated by the commits
sion" This answered, the next question
is how the trout came in Jennings brook
and the only reasonable conclusion is tina
in come way Loeb Leven trout may
have found the way from the Orlant
hatchery to the Penobscot river and III
the Kenduskeag to Garland pond, into
which the Jennings brook empties. 1t |.
said that two trout have been captured
in Garland pond weighing over half {
pound answering to the description o.
the one recently sent to Green lake.