The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-11-20

year 1900. An early picture of the toll
bridge across the falls shows man sit
ting In chair suspended by rope from
the bridge, let down near to the water
spearlng salmon as they passed. The
Shad were taken in smaller quantities
by scoop nets, or in baskets fastened to
poles, but the quantities would be large
compared with present day success in
hShing. As long as salmon and Shad
We're taken here in marketable quantities.
the Connecticut river brands of both spe-
cies commanded fancy price. owing to
their good size and delicate flavor. ae-
counted for in early times by the reputed
purity of the waters. Brook trout We're
often taken in the Connecticut weighing
from four to six pounds and also in
Williams and Saxtons rivers. As late
AS 1850 a trout was taken at the foot of
the locks here weighing four and one
quarter pounds nv George kimbaH,
cousin Of George w kimball. This was
put into the basin of one Of the fountains
then on the grounds of the Island House
and kept there long time.
Pike introduced.
There were no pike in the Connecticut
until about 1910. They are all supposed
ID have come from plymouth Ponds on
BLACK river Some years earlier these
lakes were stocked with them and pro
tected by the state. a flood broke down
the barriers and washed away many OF
them into the river, and from that INTO
the Connecticut, and they have gone bot
north and south from the mouth of the
Black river Some good pickerel and
black bass are now found, but pike are
the largest sized and most valuable hSh
now in the Connecticut Some of the
records for weight are as follows:
In 1871 pike was caught az the foot
IF the locks weighing eighteen and three
quarters pounds. by Henry Hills, which
was so large Mr.. Hills was unable to
iaGd it and it was shot. The fish was
served up at Davis x RusselIS tavern.
the old Bellows Falls stage house and
20 citizens partook of the dinner. One of
the same species was caught by lad in
May, 1860. weighing eleven and one
quarter pounds; 8 ten and one-half pound
one from the eddy May "a. lS62 a
.even-pounder in October, 1867. by l.. \.
Nourse: fourteen and one-half pounds by
Col. c. L. King ut the mouth of Williams
r.ver. Nav 6. 1873; a ten-pounder in
May. 1857. by Peter Brewer, master me-
rhanic of the V. V. r. R; twelve and
fve-sixteenths pounds by Master Fred
T.. Amadon. May Is. 1868; William
kiniry about 1870 caught one weighing
eighteen and three-quarterS pounds;
fourteen pound one by G. f. Capron, and
= sixteen pound one by Charles Barker
landed the same day in July, 1SS2. while
~ September, 1908, Elmer Porter ana
George Wright. living near the Scythe
SNath St0p. secured TWO Nhltll toSSAh'l
timed the scales at the snath shop at
-hirty-eight pounds. including suck
mon which they were carried. eStlmatee
- weigh from two to two and one-haH
mounds.
FEELS are found in large numbers and
If some size in the canal when the water
x shut out. but they are not rs nle"t ="
sc formerly. The late Edward Bake
- 9 agent of the canal company, caugA'
Them weighing from nine to tWeiv.
~. ,1In6s and one NIGHT while in charge OF
.,e canal he secured 2G9 in one lot .,
What was probably the largest pike
yer caught in the Connecticut river was
ought Jan. 81. 1921, when l1c"nis
'rackesy of North Waipnle VS. tSninr
through the ice near the New Hampshire
sEora about half wav between the dam
ID the mouth of Williams Rive. ue"t
what is known as rock No. ;. HIS h2if
y,-os n sucker about FIVE inches long Inc
nike weighed Just twenty pounds, ana
n,"as,red At inches in length. both stote-
tents being v0uched fer by tnfee cred.."'
illnesses to the weighing and measuring
- w"s of the variety known as grey
piko' >.
~, Bellows Falls. AVID PSI feet higher
.r,on the SQUARE. was in for~'or years
-,ctc5 fsp,;.,s- roeort In 1877 Il W."
.t,ol.ad with nicker-1 nd e No.. -'"@,.'7
+r.a fishing was GOOD the picEercl @ffa4"
80 . e;7a exro~dirg five pea7"dS. ord W"FF
-s-.:frl vhilo noroh ard MONT Wnr"
,l,ndorf BIT thev hove aN n"""lv DIS
o.-naarofl TEis IS +ha or1v still watFr
~~-o within the borders of the town o.
= ckingham.