CHITTENDEN AND DRUCE LAKES. 79 



"Eh, mod! it's a great peety ye wasted your pie; it's 

 four bawbees clean gone. But, if that chiel had only 

 caught ye wouldn't he have given ye fits?" 



Chittenden and Druce lakes are about a mile in a 

 southeasterly direction from Fourth or Miltimore Lake. 

 They are reached from Rollins Depot on the Wisconsin 

 Central. Plenty of buses and conveyances meet the 

 trains, and an abundant supply of boats will be found 

 on the lakes. A good point to start from is the Mallory 

 Hotel on Druce Lake, rowing from the landing below 

 the house, following the shore northward and around 

 the lake until the channel is reached which leads into 

 Third Lake. The waterway between the two lakes 

 is generally dry in the Summer, necessitating a portage 

 of about a hundred yards, hence it is advisable to take 

 the lighest boat that can be obtained. The north shore, 

 just outside the rush bed, is good bass fishing right 

 into the mouth of the channel. The best pickerel 

 ground is just off the deep water, outside the rushes, 

 on the east side of the lake, south of the hotel. There 

 is also some good bass water in the rushes south of 

 the channel. 



Starting into Chittenden Lake from the channel, it 

 is as well to row south to the end of the shallow blank 

 bottom, which stretches some distance inshore, until 

 the deepish water and bass weeds in the southern 

 portion are reached. At this point there is some 

 splendid fishing ground, bass and pickerel being ex- 

 tremely plentiful. Minnows are the best bait that can 

 be used. From there on down to the outlet, on the 

 extreme southern end of the lake, is the best ground 

 in the lake during chilly weather. Try the bass weeds 

 in the deepish water, and if not successful there try 

 within the rush lines. Sometimes the fishes will lie 

 farther out than at others, and a hundred feet nearer 

 in or farther out from shore will make much difference 

 to the angler. Proceeding in a northwesterly -direc- 

 tion, a long stretch of rushes will be found extending 



quite a distance from the shore, with moss and silk 

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