The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-18
LARGE LANDLORDS
IN CAPE COD PONDS
No Longer Necessary to Go to
Maine and Canada for
Fighting Fish.
SEASON OPEN TO NOV. 1

BoSroN Mass, Aug. 17.-That salmon
have been land locked in one OF the
great ponds on Cape Cod and are being
caught Weighing as much as IL pounds
Is news to many anglers who have been
In the habit Of travelling to Maine and
Nova Scotia each year at a considerable
expense In order to catch a few salmon
Long Pond in the town of Plymouth
is where the anglers are having this
sport Reports have been coming in
since the open season began. April /,
that fish are being taken weighing from
8 to pounds each.
Mrs. James Taylor pf Cambridge
Mass, caught a salmon that weighed II
pounds and which was 30 inches long
and 1871 inches girth. This FISH was
caught trolling deep with 900 feet Of
line with a sinner sewed to single
hook Besides the twelve pound salmon
Mrs. Taylor has caught five others.
George Squires OF Melrose has taken
seven salmon. the largest weighing Sh
pounds William Collihgswood of Endi-
colt, n. Y, has landed six salmon, the
largest two weighing 9h and IL pounds
respectively
Joseph Bacon and party OF Attleboro.
Mass. last week caught six salmon
whose weights were as follows: AZ,
~, Z. eia. az and SA pounds.
Nearly all OF the fish landed thus far
shave been taken trolling. most OF them
with live fish sewed TO n single hook.
Long Pond is only one OF the 365
ponds in Plymouth county. 1t is nearly
two miles long. with sandy shores and Is
ninety feet deep in places. The shores
are heavily wooded and dotted with
beautiful summer homes. Besides SAL
mon 1t contains small mouth black
bass. white perch and large numbers OF
land locked smelts.
That II Is an ideal lake for salmon Is
seen by the rapid growth that these Ash
have made since October, 1915, when
being planted in October averaging
from three to five inches long.
The economic value OF these fish will
be seen when II IL understood that 1t
costs nothing to feed them from the
time they are planted as fingerlings
until they are caught by the anglers.
weighing from 5 to ~ pounds each.
II some of our sportsmen who spend
large sums of money each year going to
Maine in order to get few salmon
from to s pounds each would 60 to
Cape Cod It would mean n lot to the
people down there. Several other ponds
on the Cape have beerf stocked with
salmon and rainbow trout, including one
in Wellfieet and one in Brewster. be-
sides Bloody Pond in Plymouth.
For over fifty years different commits"
sioners have been planting salmon in
our lakes without getting results; most
of the fish have been liberated soon
after being Matched and before they
could protect themselves against their
many enemies. and 1t was not until the
present Board OF Commissioners adopted
modern methods Of raising the fish tc
large fingerlings, three to five inches
long. before lberating them that any
satisfactory results were obtained.
Now that a method has been found
to establish salmon it may be possible
for the commissioners to select other
lakes where these splendid food and
game fish will do we'll.
With a reasonable chance to secure
a good sized salmon many anglers would
stay at home and spend their money
here rather than make a long Journey
70 northward.
In order to fully understand the ad
vantages of the method that has beer
adopted by the Massachusetts, commits
sioners In planting large fish the fol
lowing facts will be Of interest: On'
thousand salmon from three to FIVE
inches long were planted In Long Pond
Plymouth, in October. 1915. The blacl
bass had stopped feeding at this time
and the salmon were not molested unit
they had become Thoroughly acclimated
Had the salmon been liberated at &
time when the bass could eat them 4
is safe to say that no trace of then
would have been left.
During 1917 or two years after theI
were planted in Long Pond, sevent,
salmon were caught by anglers weighing
from two and half to seven and three
quarters pounds each. Since April
this year a number Of fish have beeI
taken Of FIVE, eight and twelve pound
each.
Compare this with the record Of sal
mon planted in Rangeley Lakes. Me.
which has Just been published by tn
United States Bureau OF Fisheries
document No. SCI, issued May rs. 1918
1t is here stated that salmon wer
first planted in the Rangeley Lakes II
1873. and from that time until 1884 ;
total of 650.750 salmon were planted
The first salmon caught of which Their
is any record was in 1875. when a fisl
Weighing half pound was taken; an
other of two pounds was caught in 1877
and in 1880 one Of four pounds is re
corded.
Nine years after the first salmon wer
planted one of six pounds and one o
twelve pounds were taken also seventy
nine small ones averaging one and two
n1thS pounds each. No more salmon
were caught in any OF the Rangele.
Lakes until 1887. when two were takel
weighing seven and a half and fv
pounds respectively.
Here we find that from 1873 to 1888
S60.750 salmon were planted from 1877
to 1887, a period of fourteen years, tn
anglers caught eighty-three fish, Will
in Plymouth the story is that 1000 fis
were planted in 1915 and 5000 In 1916
and up to date, three years from tn
first planting, more than ninety fish hav
been taken whose weight greatly ex
goods those taken in Rangeley Lakes.
The method employed by the Massa
chusetts commissioners in planting larg
fingerlings late in the fall, as compare,
with planting fry, speaks for itself.
The season In which salmon may b
caught in Massachusetts was extende
at the last session OF the Legislature
and the open season is now from April
to November /. This will give tn
anglers a chance to enjoy the fall fish
ing at a time when the weather Is cool.
CMATT AICAE Ennn