Michigan Department of Conservation
Research and Development Report No. 45
Institute for Fisheries Research Report No. 1707, 1965
The Sixteenth Annual Creel Census and Progress
Report, Pigeon River Trout Research Station, 1964
William C. Latta
The Pigeon River Trout Research Station,
13 miles east of Vanderbilt in Otsego County, was established in 1949 on the site of
the former Pigeon River Forest Headquarters. The experimental waters of the station
include seven small limestone sinks or lakes (Ford, Section 4, Hemlock, Lost, West
Lost, North Twin and South Twin) and, at the time of the station’s establishment,
included 4.8 miles of the Pigeon River. This portion of the Pigeon River was divided
into four experimental sections (A, B, C and D), each approximately 1.2 miles long
(Figure 1). In 1953, a fifth experimental section (E), of about equal length, was
added at the upstream end of the controlled area, increasing the length of experimental
stream to about 6 miles. The physical features of the stream sections are given in
Table 1.