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better a few days afterwards at " Three-Pound 

 Pond," a beautiful sheet of water, clear as crystal, 

 in the neighborhood of the famous " Hitching' s 

 Pond " which affords the best August fishing of 

 any body of water in the woods. After a long 

 siege of fly casting, with no other reward than a 

 single fish of two pounds, I reluctantly resorted to 

 the troll, when I was rewarded with a four pounder, 

 the largest speckled trout I had ever captured. If 

 I had taken him with a fly, I would have deemed 

 it ample compensation for the time and expense of 

 my trip. But that at least one " fish story " may 

 be recorded truthfully, the trolling line and minnow 

 are thus given the credit which belongs to them. 

 I have often fished in this pond, and have taken 

 therefrom many large trout, and it seems to hold 

 no other, but I have succeeded, after patient trial, 

 in taking but two with a fly. There may be points 

 where, in July or August, the fly may be success- 

 ful. But even this is doubtful, for the whole pond 

 seems to be a bubbling spring, clear and cold, rend- 

 ering it unnecessary for the fish to seek specially 

 cool places in hot weather. 



As usual, I took a run to Big Wolf Pond, where 

 more large lake trout have been taken than in any 

 other water inclosure in the woods, and where Dr. 

 Perkins, two years ago, took his famous twenty- 

 seven-pounder. But the glory of " Big Wolf ' 



