The importance of fishing to Chazy Lakers is discussed elsewhere in this series of blogs. In this 1899 news item nineteen year old Patrick and a friend were caught instead of the fish. I have to wonder why they weren’t ice fishing in January. Perhaps they were after some frost fish in Seine Bay. They were fined $15 each.
8.23.08 / 8am
I used to think that in the early days game laws were not enforced so this item surprised. My dad spoke freely about netting frostfish and lake trout there when he was a boy. He said that at one time they covered the boat bottom with one hauling of the net. Larkin’s point was considered a good place to net lake trout. They also set night lines using a hundred or more baited lines. He said that one time they couldn’t check their lines in time because of storms. When they did check, they had caught a lake trout bigger than they had ever seen. They estimated it at 25 pounds. Unfortunately, the flesh of the big fish had deteriorated, and it was not edible. I remember seeing an 18 pounder in the freezer at the Grove that a fisherman was storing there.
6.8.09 / 9pm
Frost fish are actually a smaller variety of white fish. It is unusual to catch them by hook and line. Dad (Exford) said that they were very good eating. Here in Minnesota some commercial fishermen do fish whitefish through the ice. They have a method of passing their nets under the ice. One of my former students does fish this way and has shared some of his catch with me.
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