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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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sually captured in the fall, in traps or nets, while running up the brooksto spawn. The Family Centrarchidae, or bass family, are next in importance as gamefish. Only one variety, however, is known to have been introduced into theAdirondack waters, namely, the smallmouth black bass (Micropteras bolomieii),not native to any of these waters, but introduced into many of them, notably inRaquette Lake and the Fulton Chain of Lakes, and wandering into others. Asa game fish it deserves high rank, averaging a larger size than the brook trout,taking the fly readily, and making a gallant fight when hooked. Its cousin, theOswego bass, or largemouth black bass (Micropterus salmoides), resemblesclosely the smallmouth variety, and possibly has been placed in some of the lakes. The troublesome rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), a nimble biter in waterswhere his gamier relatives exist, does not infest the Adirondacks. But the stillhumbler member of the bass family, the sunfish, or pumpkin seed of our
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FISHES AND FISHING IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 293 boyhood experience (Eupojuotis anvens), is found in great numbers, with the samebad habit of taking the bait which characterizes him in the outside waters. The Family Esocidas, or the pikes, are not native to the Adirondacks,but unfortunately, through ignorance and sometimes through malice, have beenplaced in waters inhabited by trout, proving to be among the most destructiveenemies of that royal fish. The true pike (Esox lucins) and the pickerel (Esoxreticulatus), a smaller fish of the Esox family (pickerel properly meaning alittle pike), are often confounded with each other. The pike was found by Matherin Long Lake and Forked Lake, but now exists in quite a number of lakes. It isbelieved that the pickerel (Esox reticulatus) also has been placed in some Adiron-dack lakes. Guides and sportsmen usually, perhaps universally, apply the namepickerel indiscriminately to both varieties, and always in emphatic deprecation. The Family Siluridae, the

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Lamont's Hotel on Smith's Lake (Lake Lila)
These buildings were torn down in 1893.
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