90 NEW ENGLAND AND THE AROOSTOOK. 



Time was when the Green and White Mountains were the 

 Arcadia of the angler. When a lad I could catch trout ad 

 libitum among the Hampshire and Berkshire hills of Massa- 

 chusetts, and a basket of a hundred and fifty per day was 

 nothing remarkable ; but those streams are sadly depleted 

 now. JSTevertheless there are numerous localities throughout 

 New England, setting Maine aside, which even now yield a 

 fair reward to the patient and dexterous angler. 



There are the Yantic and the Quinnebaug, tributaries of 

 the Thames in Connecticut, easily accessible from New Lon- 

 don and Norwich, and flowing through a richly cultivated 

 farming country, with comparatively few factories to destroy 

 their natural attractions. 



On the Marshpee and other streams of the Cape Cod pen- 

 insula fair trouting can be found. This and the Marshfield 

 district are much favored by Bostonians who seek a day's 

 fishing near home. 



The Blackberry Eiver and the Konkopot, tributaries of 

 the Housatonic, are easily reached by the Housatonic Kail- 

 road from Bridgeport, Ct. They flow through one of the 

 most charming sections of the Berkshire hills, and within 

 view of " Grey lock " Mountain. Shefiield, on the Connecti- 

 cut' State line, is a good starting-j)oint for the angler, Avho 

 Avill meet with success commensurate with his efibrts. In- 

 deed, in nearly all the more sparsely-settled districts of Con- 

 necticut and Massachusetts some remnants of the aboriginal 

 Salmo fontinaUs can be found. 



And what shall be said of the mountain region of Ver- 

 mont or the grand old White Hills of New Hampshire ? Arc 

 they not annually the resort of thousands of tourists and 

 anglers, to whom each river, brook and stream is as a familiar 

 face and household word ? Very different in their general 

 features are the White Mountains from the Adirondacks. 

 The latter impress by the immensity of their huge propor- 

 tions and the grandeur of their outlines. They convey to the 

 beholder an idea of illimitable extent. From almost any 



