068 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. 



The spring fishing opens immediately with the breaking up of the ice 

 in the lakes, which usually takes place from the middle of April to the 

 10th of May, according to the season. About the 10th of June that 

 phlebotomizing pest the " black fly" makes its appearance, driving all 

 sensible anglers from the streams, and devouring, by slow and painful 

 tortures, all the fools who persistently remain. These minute vampires 

 continue in full possession of the woods and waters till about the 1st of 

 August, when they disappear as suddenly as they came. 



During the hot weather of July and August the fish betake themselves 

 to the deep and cool bottoms of the lakes, and are not easily lured to the 

 surface from these refreshing asylums. About the 1st of September, the 

 water being lowered in temperature, the Trout begin to abandon their 

 deep abodes, and are once more found in the pools and eddies of the 

 various tributaries of the lakes. 



Trolling over the lakes from a skiff with the ordinary spoon or squid 

 tackle, is much practised in these waters ; and at times, when the wind 

 and temperature are favorable, many fine fish are taken. 



Sportsmen who visited the Adiroudacks, in the neighborhood of 

 Long Lake, last summer, speak with enthusiasm of the deer and 

 trout in that vicinity. A little settlement has sprung up at the lower 

 end of that beautiful sheet of water, and is called " Long Lake." 

 It contains a store, a saw-mill, and a post-office j and is a good point 

 from which to take a departure further into that wilderness of lake- 

 lets and forests. It is easily accessible from Fort Edward, on the 

 Saratoga and Whitehall Railroad. The distance is about seventy 

 miles, more than half of which is by stage, and the remainder in a 

 good spring- wagon. 



Parties going to the Adirondacks by this route, could return by 

 way of Raquette River and Saranak Lake to Martin's, and thence 

 by way of Keeseville to Port Kent, on Lake Champlain. The 

 excursion could be easily performed with ladies in company. 



One of the most substantial men at the little village of Long Lake 

 is Mitchell Sebattis, one of the few Indians remaining of the tribe 

 of St Francis. He is a son of an Indian of some note, " Captain 



