How and Where Salmon-fishing may be Obtained, n 



The Penobscot, if thoroughly exploited, would, we have 

 no doubt, rank well as a salmon-river. This stream is a 

 whole sermon by itself on the value of restocking ex- 

 hausted rivers. It was practically depleted, while now it 

 is quite productive. When a river has been frequented 

 by anglers for many consecutive years, experience has 

 taught where salmon may be expected to lie at each part 

 of the fishing season, and at every stage of the water. In 

 this respect the Penobscot is under a decided disadvan- 

 tage. It is but very recently that salmon have begun to 

 run there in any number, and the salmon-pools of the 

 river above the dam at Bangor are yet to be located. 

 Mr. Stillwell recommends trial at Medway, seventy-five 

 miles above tide-water, at the junction of the east and west 

 branches of the river; also the Ouissaticook, a very cold 

 stream, rising at Mount Katahdin and discharging into the 

 East Branch especially where Springs Brook enters on 

 the left side of the stream, about two or three miles below 

 Grand Falls. Medway is twelve miles by stage from 

 Mettawomkeg, on the European Railroad, and the Ouissa- 

 ticook can be reached from there by canoe. He says, " I 

 have no doubt salmon could now be taken in, all these 

 places, and good pools be discovered." 



The fishing in the pool below the dam at Bangor was 

 very fair in 1885; and though we hear it was compara- 

 tively little fished, and then principally by the inexperi- 

 enced, still the catch was quite respectable in point of 

 numbers, though the fish ran small, seldom exceeding ten 

 pounds in weight. It must, however, be borne in mind 

 that this was the first year of direct result, as far as the 

 angler is concerned, from restocking a practically ex- 

 hausted river, and that the salmon of succeeding years 



