360 Trout-Fishing in the Rangeley Lakes. 



boats, etc., etc. The annual dues are $25. The camp charges 

 are $2 per day for board, $1 for board of guide, and fifty cents 

 per day for use of boats. The best guides receive $2 per day, 

 making the total cost per day while in camp $5.50, unless two 

 persons choose to fish from the same boat, when, of course, the 

 expense of guide, board for guide, and hire of boat may be 

 shared. The fishing season extends from about May 25 to Octo- 

 ber 1, when the law prohibits the capture of trout save by written 

 permission of the fish commissioner for scientific purposes. J )uring 

 the first month and the last three weeks of the fishing season, guests 

 are only admitted upon the invitation of members, since the camp 

 accommodations are then likely to be overtaxed ; but between June 

 20 and September 10 the camp is open to all visitors upon the 

 same terms as to members. Ladies and children are also admitted 

 between the dates named. A roomy building with separate apart- 

 ments is specially reserved for them, and as two or three female 

 servants are constantly employed in the camp, they are sure to be 

 quite as comfortable as in ordinary country hotels. 



There are some peculiar features in the arrangement of the camp 

 buildings which will be of interest to those who are not familiar with 

 such structures. The main camp is a substantial board structure, 

 100 feet long by 30 feet wide. At its extreme westerly end is a well- 

 equipped kitchen, and adjoining it is a dining-room. Then comes 

 the main apartment, which is occupied as a sleeping and sitting room. 

 This room takes the full width of the main building (30 feet), is about 

 60 feet in length, and from the floor to the gable is 30 feet in the 

 clear, giving it a most spacious appearance and securing thorough 

 ventilation. There are no partitions in this apartment, but twenty- 

 five or thirty beds are ranged along its sides, and at its extreme 

 easterly end is a large open fire-place, around which the weary 

 anglers gather after their day's sport, and entertain each other with 

 the rehearsal of their experiences and exploits. As one huge log 

 after another blazes up, — for the nights are seldom so warm that a 

 fire is oppressive, — story after story passes around. It rarely hap- 

 pens that some one of the circle has not captured a six or eight 

 pound trout during the day, and the one who has been so fortunate is, 

 of course, the hero of the hour. With what kind of fly the fish was 

 captured, how long it took to land him, the narrow escape which the 



