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Senator Frye's Forest Lodye, Rangeley Lake, Maine. 



The species averages three-quarters of a pound to one 

 pound and a half in the streams, and one pound to three 

 pounds in the lakes and ponds. It occurs between lati- 

 tude 32 X an d 55, in the lakes and streams of the At- 

 lantic watershed, near the sources of a few rivers flowing 

 into the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, and some of 

 the southern affluents of Hudson Bay. its range being 

 limited by the western foothills of the Alleghanies, extend- 

 ing about three hundred miles from the coast, except about 

 the Great Lakes, in the northern tributaries of which it 

 abounds. It also inhabits the head waters of the Chatta- 

 hoochee, in the Southern spurs of the Georgia Alleghanies 

 and tributaries of the Catawba in North Carolina and 

 clear waters of the great islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 Anticosti, Cape Breton, Prince Edward, and Newfound- 

 land; and abounds in New York, Michigan, Connecticut, 

 Pennsylvania, Maine, Long Island, Canada, Wisconsin, 

 New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. 



My favorite rod for stream trout fishing is a cork-handled, 

 all-lancewood rod of three or four ounces in weight and 

 eight feet in length, or a rod of similar length weighing four 

 or five ounces and made of split bamboo the best split 

 bamboo of the best workmanship. The cheap, so-called 

 split bamboo of the drygoods store bargain (?) counter, re- 

 tailed for a price that would not pay for the mere wrapping 

 of the correct article, is a flimsy, decorative thing, and 

 would collapse, or, worse still, bend one way and stay that 

 way, if used on the stream. The fly-rod material must be 

 springy and resiliently so, and the rod must be constructed 

 so as to permit of this condition. 



The reel I favor is a small, narrow, light, all-rubber or 

 narrow aluminum common-click reel, holding twenty-five 

 yards of the thinnest-calibred silk, water-proof-enameled 

 line. 



My leader is a brown-stained one of silk gut, twelve feet 

 in length. The leader should be fresh and firm, flexible 

 and fine, not a dried-up brittle, unyielding, snappy snarl of 

 the salesman's discarded sample box that breaks at the 



