The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-22
GAMEY BEAUTIES.
Trout Fishing Better
Than Has Been
For Years.
STOCKING THE LAKE
William G. Morton Gets
a Huge One in
Holden.


Good catches of trout at Lake Quin-
sigamond continue and larger number
of the speckled beauties are being taken
than in any year within the experience
of the present generation of Waltons
Brook trout weighing from three-quar-
tiers of a pound to six pounds have been
almost daily taken from the lake, and
more lines have been cast near the
upper end of the lake, which by the
way has always been the favorite fish
ing ground, than in any one of a dozen
past seasons.
The success of the season at the lake
with the hook and line has nothing but
encouragement in it for the sportsmen
just now engaged in commendable eff
fort to stock the waters of Quinsiga-
mond with game fish. Thousands Of
lingering trout and trout fry have been
liberated in the waters of the lake,
while three hundred big trout, the old
breeders of the Wilkinsonville hatchery,
have been added to increase the stock
of game fish.
e. d. Burlington and a number of in
terested devotees of the rod and reel
associated with him state that they
have but just made a beginning in the
endeavor to make the big lake superb
trout water. Six thousand fry of the
famous English lake trout are being
reared at Mr.. Buffingtons own expense
at the Wilkinsonville hatchery for lib
GRAFTON in Worcester. These brown
trout are gamey in the extreme and are
admirably adapted for thriving in the
! cold springholes> and deeper places of
the lake. In addition to these there are
being raised at the hatchery, several
thousand salmon trout and brook trout
for liberation this year when they have
attained size that will enable them to
avoid the greedy mouths of the rapa-
cious Dickerel that infest the lake.
Thousands of smelts will be put into
the lake for food fish
Although number of pretty good
judges are of the opinion that these
game fish will never thrive in the lake
on account of the large number of pick
erel and suckers that infest its waters,
still the majority of competent students
OF conditions at the lake believe that
the sheet of water can be made the
finest trouting waters in New England
outside of the famous Maine lakes.
They are the men who are spending
time and a considerable amount of
money on the work now in hand or
contemplated. State Fish and Game
Commissioner e. D. Burlington does
not propose to have his labors come to
naught by reason of illegal fishing OF
spearing in the waters of the lake The
law that closed the lake to ice fishing
for period of three years was, per-
maps, the greatest protective measure
| that could have been devised for pro-
tecting the game fish interests of the
lake. Annually for a number of years.
tilt fishing has done more to deplete
the trout than all other forms of fishing
taken together, with the possible ex-
ception of the set-4ine. During the past
winter the lake was! closely watched
and ice fishing absolutely prohibited.
This meant the saving of hundreds of
Dig trout to legitimate fishing, in true
sportsmanlike fashion-with rod and
reel.
Meanwhile fishermen are enjoying
good sport at the upper end of the lake
at trout fishing that has all the
fascination that turks in the possibility
Of landing one of the big fellows, for
the generality of fishermen would
rather, twice over, land six-pounder
than a drozen creels of six-inch trout.
Almost daily since first the open water
began to appear near the Lincoln street
bridge, the favorite spot has been lined
with fishermen. Bait fishing was never
I better at the lake. Next week will
pfdcIlcally witness the end of bait fish
ing at Quinsigamond, and the brooks
and streams that have been well nigh
deserted since David NJ Earle gave the
lake fishing a decided boom by dis
playing a two-pounder, will once more
be infested with Waltons. The brooks
until now have not been in the best of
condition for the heavy baskets. Now,
however, the trout are running in good
shape, snow water is out of the brooks
and the finest brook fishing of the year
is ahead
One of the handsomest trout ever
taken from Worcester county brook
was brought into Worcester last night
by William c. Morton of 10 Clifton
street. The big fellow weighed four
pounds and eight ounces, and meas
ured Is inches in length. Mr.. Morton
volunteered the information that the
speckled fellow came from a stream in
Holden, and that is the extent Of his
tale about the brook. A handsome creel
was brought into Worcester last night
by William C. Hamilton and Jay N.
Smell, who fished Ito the north" The
catch averaged well in size and num-
bered 81 fish.