Identifier: withflyrodcamera00samu (find matches)
Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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aters of Maine without the smelt. I have foundthe smelt far inland, separated by impassable barriers of rock from the ocean, whereit could never have ascended, and which it must have reached before some great con-vulsion of nature had isolated and land-locked it. I know of several ponds wherethe smelt exists in abundance. I do not know of one single instance in which theland-locked salmon has been found without the smelt. If the salmon ever was land-locked without the smelt it perished. The salmon in California has been repeatedlyland-locked by mining operations, and they survived and bred. The land-locked sal-mon of Grand Lake is the same species precisely in size, weight, etc., as is to befound in the chain of ponds emptying into the Sebec River. At Reeds Pond, onthe Ellsworth Road, about twelve miles from Bangor, you will find the same land-locked salmon that we have at Sebago, attaining to 12 and 20 lbs. The near vicinityof tlie ocean seems to have effected the size of these fish.
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434 IVith Fly-Rod and Camera. ninish and the Schoodic salmon may visit the salt waterif they desire, and I am not at all certain but that in-dividuals go up and down the Saguenay River. It is avery important point yet to be solved. * While at Hotel Roberval you must not fail to visitthe camp or village of the celebrated Montagnais Indians,at the Hudsons Bay Companys station near the hotel,and you will be particularly fortunate if you are presentat one of their o-reat annual meetinos or councils. * Prof. Goode, in the report of the U. S. Commissioners, published in 1884,says: All of the family \ Salmoiiidce \ run into very shoal water, and usually to thesources of streams, to deposit their eggs, and all of them seek food and cool tem-peratures in the largest and deepest bodies of water accessible. I am inclined tothe view that the natural habitat of the salmon is in the fresh waters, the moreso since there are so many instances — such as that of the Stortmontfield Ponds

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