TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



Rangeley Region section, and my experience has been that 

 of the trout or salmon caught on the fly and immediately 

 returned to the water not more than one out of an hun- 

 dred dies even after being weighed. 



At present, 1914, the law permits one angler to kill 

 in one day two fish caught on the fly in the stream below 

 Kennebago Falls and to kill ten fish caught on the fly 

 above the Falls and in the waters of the upper section. 



It is with a great deal of satisfaction that I am able to 

 say that few sportsmen (be they tyros or experienced an- 

 glers) when fishing these waters avail themselves of the 

 privilege of killing their legal number of fish a day. This 

 condition, in a modest way, I have in some degree helped 

 to bring about with the aid of the guides. It is the excep- 

 tion, not the rule, to-day that the angler kills his legal limit. 

 On the other hand, he saves no more fish than he wants to 

 eat or desires to have mounted or preserved for scientific 

 purposes. 



In what I have called the upper Rangeley Region sec- 

 tion, but more especially in Kennebago Lake, Little Ken- 

 nebago Lake and the upper section of Kennebago Stream, 

 is to be had the finest of trout fly-fishing. 



In these waters the trout range in weight from one- 

 quarter of a pound to four pounds, and it is not unusual 

 in the early Spring and during the month of September 

 to catch trout weighing up to five pounds actual weight. 



Trout have been caught weighing seven pounds, and 

 it is an established fact that there are many such fish in 



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