192 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



Bromptoti Lakes. The lakes of the Brompton Chain are twelve or fourteen in 

 number, situated in the midst of a perfect wilderness of hills ; indeed, so broken 

 is the contour of the ground, they can only be reached by one road, and that one 

 runs at an average angle of 45"^ to the horizon. The larger lakes contain the 

 finest " lunge " or lake trout, and some of the smaller ones abound with brook 

 trout and bass. At the foot of the largest lake there is a mill, but this is about 

 the only building in a circuit of miles, and the sportsman may easily imagine 

 himself in a perfect wilderness. 



At Brompton Lake proper, seven miles long by three wide, the Waterloo Club 

 has a club-house. Boats and a permit to occupy the club-house can be obtained 

 at the village of Waterloo. The club-house is situated on a small island near the 

 middle of the lake. At the west side of the lake a small creek comes in, which is 

 the outlet of Mud Lake, and another nameless lake. Mud Lake is about a mile 

 long, and contains both lunge and speckled trout. Two miles east from the large 

 lake is Little Brompton Lake, which is nearly two miles long. Two and a half 

 miles east from the south end of the large lake is a body of water called Key 

 Pond. This pond is somewhat larger than Little Brompton. Both of these lakes 

 contain lunge. Three miles south from the " Old Mill " is Trout Lake, which is 

 about two miles long. Speckled trout have been caught there that tipped up the 

 beam at the six pound notch. This lake is only six miles by a good road from 

 Magog. The " Old Mill " is the name of a landing place on the inlet of Brompton 

 Lake, where an old mill once stood. There is none there now. The water at 

 this spot tumbles over the old dam down the rocks into a dark deep pool, the 

 abode of many large speckled trout. They will seldom rise to the fly, but are 

 taken with a live minnow or a small trolling spoon. You launch your boat here 

 and row down the sluggish stream three miles to the lake, which is about seven 

 miles in length by three in breadth. You find here the speckled trout, the silver 

 lunge, which vary in weight from three to twenty-five pounds, the black lunge, 

 from two to ten pounds, and a short, thick lunge, which hardly ever exceeds two 

 pounds in weight. The latter fish are only caught by down fishing in very deep 

 water. 



To reach the Brompton Lakes, take the Grand Trunk Railway to Sherbrooke, 

 at the junction of the Magog and Francis Rivers. This is on the Massiwippi 

 branch of the Passumpsic Railroad, and also on the Kennebec and Megantic 

 roads. The Magog House is the best hotel in Sherbrooke, where you will find 

 good accommodations, at $1 to $1.25 per day. The lakes can also be reached from 

 Alagog, if preferable. The distance from the hotel to Brompton Lake is fourteen 

 miles over a passable road. 



IVatcrloo. Waterloo, or Magog, is situated near a small lake bearing the 

 same name, and is on the Sheffard and Chamby Railroad, which runs from 

 Montreal. The train leaves Montreal at 2.45 p. m., and arrives in Waterloo 

 at seven o'clock that evening. At the station you will find a free "bus" for 

 the Brooks Hotel, where you will get good accommodations at $1.25 per day. 

 Waterloo boasts a " Piscatorial Club," whose members, Messrs. George Allen, 

 Walt Taylor, Nutting, Skinner, and others, are a set of genial gentlemen, ever 

 ready to give any information and assistance that a stranger sportsman visit- 

 ing there may require. For pickerel, fish in the lake near the hotel, or drive over 

 to Broome Lake, a fine body of water seven miles from Waterloo. This lake is 

 famous for its black bass fishing, and for an abundance of fish called " shad 

 waiters." At the south end of the lake, near the village of Knowlton, large quan- 

 tities of pike are caught. To catch speckled trout, get a rig from " Herbert's,' and 

 take Walt Taylor, or some other member ot the club with you. and take a tour 

 among the streams and lakes east toward Magog. Put your rod together first some 

 four miles out from the village, and try the railroad pool ; fish there and in the 

 brook through the Beaver meadow carefully, and you will be able to count a goodly 

 number of fine brook trout. Some four miles farther you come to Grass Pond, 

 which, however, is full of pickerel ; but a short distance from the pond, in its 

 outlet, the water tumbles over a little fall into a deep pool, where large trout are 

 sometimes caught. Four miles farther, by the same road, brings you to a mill- 

 pond containing large trout. A farther drive of three miles brings you to Mrs. 

 Peasley's farmhouse, where you put up your team, and, taking young Peasley 

 for guide, tramp a mile through the woods to Lake Nick, a' pretty sheet of water, 

 which measures about a mile in length, to half that distance in breadth. The 

 " moss-backed " speckled trout are taken here, weighing from one-half to four 

 pounds. They are caught over a weedy bottom, in four or five feet of water. 

 Some two hundred vards north of this lake is Mud Pond, which is about one- 

 quarter of a mile in diameter, and contains small trout. Five or six miles south 



