Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-25
Maine Fish and Game Notes.

VIII Bicknell OF Norway, shot seven
partrdges recently.
Henry Whitman of West Minot. has
killed q skunks this fall.
Joseph Dignard OF Webster has reaped
9 harvest of 50 skunks' skins this season.
J. r. Butler of Eastbrook, recently
caught in one of his traps, an animal
Weighing 20 pounds which is supposed to
be a Canada lynx.
Judging by reports. deer are quite
plenty in Freeman. One man says that
y have been killed within a radius of
three miles around Freeman Center and
still there are more left.
This year will be a record-breaker in
the number of salmon eggs taken at the
Lake Auburn fish hatchery. Three times
more than the number of fish captured
| last year, is the estimate.
Chinese pheasants have been seen in
the woods north and west of Belfast
| The birds were liberated on the shore
| road between Belfast and Searsport and
are gradually spreading out over the
county
while standing the shore of Wabash
lake. espied an animal in the water a
| short distance away. He fired and killed
the animal. which proved to be a Canada
! lynx, weighing about 60 pounds.
Ducks are not likely to be found in the
| AhdlIlC idhSo very IluCH loilSeT DIS InC
southern fight is now we'll on. The
! birds have not been found in as large
numbers as usual this fall and they have
been so shy that it has been a difficult
matter to get shot at them.
Phillips monograph: Last year few
| deer were found dead in the woods that
had not been shot. We hear of more be-
ing found this fall. Report comes from
| New Vineyard that five were found by
hunters last week. and a party recently
returned from the Dead river region re-
port that they saw three. Who can as
| sign a cause?
Back bay Portland. has always had a
| great reputation for smelts; but never
before in recent years have herring been
caught there in quantities. But this year
the fishermen have been stretching their
nets across the channel from Winslows
| Pottery to the main channel. They get
as many as twenty barrels on tide, and
realize about 81 a barrel on the fish.
The small amount of water in the river
at Ellsworth this fall and the high tides
recently have caused the water at high
tide to be nearly as salt as that at the
rivers mouth; and during the past week
smelts. tomcods and founders have been
caught at the wharves near bennett $
sail-loft 1t is the first time in about
eight years that smelts have been hooked
there while founders have not been TAX
en- near these wharves in a much longer
time.
4 W. c. Simmons and B. S. Collins OF
North Arson, recently received 5000 land
locked salmon from the United States
fish commissioners. all of which were put
into Embden lake the night they arrived
says the Advocate. They were good
sized and all of them lived during trans.
portation. Salmon have been put into
this lake every year but one for the past
six years. 1t is said that defect in the
gates of the dam caused many of the
fish first put in there to escape and the,
were lost which explains why but few
salmon have been caught there during
the past two years This will not hap
pen again and in short time there viii
be plenty of good fishing 1t is expected
that large number of spotted trout will
be put into these waters this fall
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