Brook Trout Of Great Smoky Mountains National Park Classic Reprint

Author : Robert E. Lennon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656262397
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Angling on Little Pigeon River, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1953 (Classic Reprint) written by Robert E. Lennon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Angling on Little Pigeon River, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1953 National Park Service acquired the properties. Access to the greater part of the area is limited to foot travel; private motor vehicles are restricted to the one road, h miles long which connects Greenbrier Cove with Tennessee Route 73 at the Park boundary line. The waters of the Little Pigeon and its tributaries are rapid and shal low, cool, clear, and colorless. The stream beds are composed mostly of boulders and rubble. Pools are grade A, but riffles and bottom food rate about grade B. The streams are not easy to fish; the steep gradients, the rough bottoms, and the dense streamside vegetation makes angling a rather difficult sport. King (1937) reported that native brook trout once thrived in this water shed as low as Greenbrier, at an elevation of feet. He thought that heavy fishing pressure and the introduction of rainbow trout were important factors in the subsequent decline of brook trout in all but remote headwaters. Fire and flood also affected the distribution of brook trout in a part of the drainage area. In September 1925, a severe fire swept through the vir gin forests oh the headwaters of Porters Creek. Local residents informed King that brook trout were present in the headwaters before the fire, but he reported the upper stream was barren in 1937. Indeed, District Warden El Ogle states that Porters Creek, upstream from the mouth of Boulevard Prong has remained fishless to date. Fire ash and sliding earth brought down by subsequent flood were thought to be the responsible agents in killing the trout. Porters Creek and its tributaries were ravaged by an unusually severe flash flood in 1951. Members of the Park staff have remarked that the flood resembled a tidal wave of black, foul-smelling water, and it its wake many dead trout were found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.