. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 580 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERmS. Other waters where smelts abound have shown that the trout as readily takes the fly there as where there are no smelts. When the smelts are running, it is not the usual fly time. When through with their spawning, the smelts go into deeper water. The trout do not seek those waters until the approach of warm weather, when fly fishing ceases, except on some cool pond or at the mouths of cool streams or in the streams themselves. It may be aflBrmed that the only fish that has been wisely introdu
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 580 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERmS. Other waters where smelts abound have shown that the trout as readily takes the fly there as where there are no smelts. When the smelts are running, it is not the usual fly time. When through with their spawning, the smelts go into deeper water. The trout do not seek those waters until the approach of warm weather, when fly fishing ceases, except on some cool pond or at the mouths of cool streams or in the streams themselves. It may be aflBrmed that the only fish that has been wisely introduced into Rangeley Lakes is the smelt. It has directly and indirectly been the savior of the trout by aff'ording the trout requisite food and detracting to some extent the attention of the salmon from trout by furnishing sufficient natural food. PICKEREL (Esoxreticulatus). This species is the only representative of the pike family in New England waters except in the St. Lawrence drainage or where it has been introduced. It is the only species in Maine. Its geographical range is stated to be from Maine to Florida and Louisiana; common everywhere east and south of the Allegheny Mountains. Origi- nally, or perhaps it should be said aboriginally, the pickerel had a very restricted. Fig. 22.—Pickerel {EsoxretictUalus), natural geographical distribution in the State. Since early days it has from time to time been transplanted to other waters, and from such sources it has made its way into still other waters, so that at the present time there is scarcely a congenial pickerel abode in the State that is not inhabited by it. Of the Rangeley chain of lakes, Umbagog is the only one inhabited by the fish, and there it was not indigenous. The precise date, maimer, and reason of its introduction into Umbagog Lake are uncertain. But there is a sort of tradition among the older inhabitants of the vicinity of the lake that early in the sixties or some time before some inhabitants of the lake sh
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