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trout fishing. I have fished this stream 

 often by taking the early train from 

 Watersmeet, getting off three miles 

 from the station, and waded the stream 

 all day, never being out of sight of 

 the railroad. Duck Creek flows through 

 the town, and we fished this stream for 

 six miles, with better success than we 

 expected to have, as it was fished more 

 than any other stream, being so near 

 the town. 



Fourteen miles from Watersmeet is 

 Tamarack River, which flows in and 

 out at Tamarack Lake, and we took 

 some trout from this stream that 

 puzzled us, as they were a very light 

 color, like silver, with purple spots 

 running almost down to the tails. 

 Paint River is fourteen miles from 

 Watersmeet, and the ten hours we put 

 in on this stream gave us twenty 

 pounds of trout. Crooked Lake is 

 six miles from town, and the water 

 is cold and deep, and we took bass 

 and brook trout from its waters. The 

 beach of this lake is very beautiful in 

 places, being wide and composed of 



hard, white sand, and in the morning 

 many deer tracks cut up the smooth, 

 sloping beach. 



One hundred bass in two days' fish- 

 ing was our catch in Crooked Lake. 

 Clark Lake lies about twenty rods 

 southwest of Crooked Lake, and the 

 beach is even more beautiful than that 

 of Crooked Lake. A short distance 

 beyond Clark Lake is the Lake of a 

 Thousand Islands, and from this lake 

 a number of lakes can be reached by 

 boat, which afford good fishing for bass, 

 muskalonge, pike, salmon and brook 

 trout. The best branch of the Paint 

 River flows near the railroad track at 

 Elmwood, not far from Watersmeet, 

 and we found the fishing very good at 

 this point. At Stager, a small station 

 on the Chicago and North-Western 

 Railroad, the Brule River can be reach- 

 ed, and good camping is afforded by 

 using a lumber camp near the river, 

 which flows near the station. No hotels 

 or boarding places exist here, and we 

 took one hundred pounds of trout in 

 four days' fishing on the Brule River. 



