a AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 9] 
twelve pounds in weight, and have beer taken 
weighing as much as thirty pounds. During 
the Summer and Fall months they are taken 
by trolling with a hand line, or what is far bet- 
ter and affording much greater sport, is to use 
a good, strong, well-made trolling rod, with 
large multiplying reel holding from two to 
three hundred yards of line. With such tackle 
one can feel assured of good sport, as a ten- 
pound lunge is no contemptible antagonist, 
and your nerves will be well tried before bring: 
ing him to the gaff. The boats here are good 
and free to guests. The prices here are very 
reasonable, $1 per day. The table is excel- 
lent and all the appointments are good. 
Guides, and good ones too, can always be had 
when wanted, and they do not expect to be 
paid fancy prices. Should parties wish to 
rough it in the woods and enjoy a few day’s 
camping, there are several places which can 
be easily reached from this point, and all that 
is requisite for a comfortable camp can be had 
at Magog. Georgeviile, some ten miles up the 
lake, is undoubtedly the best spot for deep fish- 
ing on the lake, there being no less than eight 
or ten good fishing grounds, among which are 
the Drew Grounds, Bigelow, Packard and 
Biack points, &c., within a circuit of two miles. 
Lunge have been taken on these grounds 
weighing as high as twenty pounds, and par- 
ties have been known to bring into town over 
oue hundred pounds of fish daily in the proper 
season Sugar Loaf Pond, about four miles 
from Georgeville, is noted for its fly fishing. 
The trout are small, the largest not going over 
one and a quarter pounds, but are plenty and 
give good sport. Asmany as eighty fish have 
been taken by a single party in a day. To 
fish this pond properly, one should go pre- 
pared to stay two or three days, and either 
camp out or put up at one of the twe log cab- 
ins on the shore; but camping is advisable. 
There is splendid lunge fishing in Oxford Pond. 
Numerous hears also prowl around the coun- 
try. ‘Old Hopps,” the noted bear hunter of 
the neigliborhood, has the skull of the last one 
he killed. The bear dressed over four hun- 
dred and fifty pounds. This makes the eighty- 
fourth bear he has killed. Magog can be 
reached via St. Johns and Waterloo by rail- 
road which has been recently completed—or 
by Central Vermont & Pasumpsic Railroad to 
Newport, Vermont, and thence by steamer 
through Lake Memphremagog, or by stage 
from Sherbrooke, from which place it is distant 
sixteen miles. For gentlemen with ladies and 
children, it will be difficult, doubtless, to find 
a place which combines so much that is desir- 
able as this. 
FISHLAND. 
About one mile long, half a mile wide, in 
places very deep, water very cold, fed from bot- 
tom springs, clear as crystal and surrounded 
by mountains. This is the little lake where 
the prettiest of all trout abound. Itis a plea- 
sant day’s journey from New York. Seventy 
trout have been taken from its bright waters 
in a single day, the majority reaching one 
pound in weight. There, as in most other 
favored spots, the Spring time is the best to 
take trout in quantities, but they abound in 
such profusion that a fine mess can be made at 
any season. Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, 
is the centre of a fine trout country. To the 
west, in Broome and Bolton, some twenty 
miles, are dozens of little lakes all containing 
trout, and if one prefers pounders to the whales 
of Rengeley, this is the spot to gather ’em in. 
To the south, some twenty miles, is Averill 
Lake, a splendid water for pounders, while 
fifty miles eastward, in a dense wilderness, 
lies Lake Megantic, where trout have been 
taken that scaled over four pounds. The fish 
there will not weigh less than a pound each, 
fight like ‘all possessed,” and no other fish 
inhabit the lake, Three miles east of Barton, 
Vermont, which is fifteen miles south of New- 
port, lies May’s Pond—a grand little sheet of 
water one mile in length, where a basket can 
be filled with “ whoppers” in a short time 
To reach this lake country take the 8 a. m. 
train from Springfield, Mass., over the Con- 
necticut River and Passumpsic River rail- 
roads, reaching Newport and Memphremagog 
al supper time, and Sherbrooke at 9 p. m. 
The trip over these roads is one of great beau- 
ty, with ever-changing scenery, touching the 
Green and White Mountains, and winding 
along the two charming rivers nearly to their 
source, 
BREECHES LéKE. 
Not a very euphonious title, certainly, but 
as suggestive as is the name (Spider) gener- 
ally applied to Lake Maccawamack. It is sit- 
uated some fifty miles northeast of Sherbrooke ; 
and is some three to four miles in length, hay- 
