The Lake Trout of Cold Stream Pond, Enfield, Maine

Abstract

Abstract Lake trout, Cristivomer namaycush (Walbaum), were netted in Cold Stream Pond, Enfield, Maine during the spawning seasons of 1951, 1952, 1953. The fish were weighed, measured and tagged with monel-metal jaw tags, and scale samples were secured for age determinations. A creel census, conducted during the fishing seasons of 1952 and 1953, contributed additional age and growth information and tag recoveries. Two hundred ten lake trout were tagged at the Webb Cove spawning area in October 1951, and 266 in the same area in October 1952. During the netting operations of 1952, 357 lake trout were taken including 91 fish tagged from the 1951 spawning population. In October 1953, similar netting operations yielded a catch of 233 fish including 40 tagged fish from the 1951 spawning population and 57 tagged fish from the 1952 spawning population. Recovery of tagged fish showed lake-wide distribution of the Webb Cove spawning population. Unsuccessful attempts to gillnet spawning fish on other suitable spawnin...