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hours longer they would have undoubt- 
edly secured at least fifty more turkeys. 
FISH AND GROUSE REGION. | 
Solon is located in Somerset county, 
Maine, and they have some good hunt- 
ing and fishing up there. The best way 
to go is by way of the North Ansonby 
Raiiroad. There is a daily stage to 
Solon, and there is some talk of putting 
ona daily stage from Solon to the Forks, 
thirty-one miles; from the Forks to 
In the 
vicinity of Solon are some fine trout 
brooks, and five miles from the village 
is a good trout pond. One mile from 
the village, at Carritunk Falls, on Ken- 
nebec River, magnificent trout are 
caught. Some caught there in the Sum- 
mer of 1877, tipped four pounds. In 
Carrying-place Town there are three 
good ponds. In the first pond are trout 
that weigh about half a pound, A Mr. 
Ellis has a camp there and keeps a kind 
of a hotel, where he has a good deal of 
company in the Summer. This pond is 
three miles from the river, and four miles 
from J. Carney’s Hotel in Moscow. In 
Carritunk is Pleasant Pond, where the 
fishing has to be done at night. The 
water is so clear you can see the bottom 
of the pond, where there is fifty or sixty 
feet of water, as plain as if there were 
not more than five or six feet. It is 
fringy around the pond and very cold 
water. From The Forks, five miles, is 
Moxie Pond, with very good fishing. 
There is a road to the Moxie. Some 
very good trout streams are in the vicin- 
ity of The Forks, and from there to 
Moose River one will find partridges. 
A Mr. Gordon says he shot seventeen 
partridges from The Forks to Parlin 
Pond, fourteen miles, and shot them all 
from a wagon in and on the side of the 
road. Parlin Pond is one of the best 
places to go fishing, as it is right by a 
hotel and on the stage road. A stranger 
can go to Parlin Pond and get all the 
fish he wants in the Summer and Fall, 
and he does not need a guide. It is al 
so a good place for partridge. Fifteen 
miles from Parlin Pond is River Settle- 
ment; two hotels. At this point there is 
fishing enough. Six miles southwest is 
Long Pond; east from Moose River is 
Wood Pond, with three wood ponds. 
South is Attian Pond. East from Attian 
Pond is Holeb Pond. Moose River 
flows through all these ponds and it is 
good boatilg from the Attian Pond to 
Holeb Pond. It is twelve or fourteen 
miles by river, with a carry about half 
a mile. Few sportsmen visit this section. 
The best time for fishing is July, the 
flies are all gone then. 
FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY. 
There are good shooting and fishing 
grounds around Frankfort, Kentucky. 
In the Fall they have a very fair show 
of quail. Snipe and plover are not 
abundant, except in a few localities, 
and woodcock are rare. In the moun- 
tains a tramp after the pheasants (ruffed 
grouse) is nearly always successful. 
Turkeys, geese and ducks usually appear 
in the tributaries of the main rivers, and 
occasionally the blue grass hunters go 
after them, but such hunts are not com- 
mon. The mallard and blue wing duck 
abounds in the Winter on all the streams 
and ponds. The Kentucky River winds 
through the cliffs at Frankfort, and any 
day, when the water is in condition, its 
banks are clouded with dark gentry 
for five miles above and below the city. 
They are not always very particular 
about the kind of fish they catch, it is 
true; but they are nevertheless tricked 
