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in-a-box, leaving a crater six thousand feet high 

 and six miles across. Crater Lake is the popular 

 name for this fishing ground, which overlooks 

 what, all things considered, is the finest trout 

 country in the world, where trout of heroic size 

 make their home, and all is quietness and peace. 

 Lake Mazama, as it is also called, is one of those 

 happy regions where the approach is part of its 

 attraction, as one passes beautiful trout streams, 

 lakes, and canons, crosses the Cascades and 

 Siskiyous really the Sierra Nevada finding 

 this land of wonders on the east slope of the 

 range in the lair of the volcano. 



The fishing ground can be reached from sev- 

 eral points, from Medford or Ashland in Oregon 

 by stage, taking two or three days, as the case 

 may be ; or one may go to Pokegema, via Thrall, 

 by railway, thirty miles up in the Cascades, 

 through a beautiful section; then take a stage 

 ride of nearly fifty miles to Klamath Falls. 1 

 A little steamer runs from here up Klamath 

 Lake to Odessa, or the Indian Agency, three 

 times a week, from which stages or private teams 

 carry one to the Lake of Mazama, thirty miles 

 to the north. If one has the time this is the 

 better way and the angler, once in the moun- 

 tains, is in a land of dreams. The climb up the 



1 The Southern Pacific now enters Klamath Falls, and 

 this region is in touch with the world. 



