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I put my hand in the water, and, though it was the last 

 of August, I think the temperature of the water was 

 not above 54. I tried to get a thermometer, but Mr. 

 Patterson had none. Again and again I tried the 

 water with my hand, and it never seemed to me over 

 52 to 54, so far as I could judge. Since I came home 

 I have tried the water in fish-cans (iced), and in the 

 trout-streams while planting salmon, and then tested 

 it with a thermometer. Always my guess was too high. 

 The water was colder than I thought. I have done 

 this repeatedly to try my judgment. This tempera- 

 ture business I wrote out in full in nr) T note-book 

 while at the Grande Decharge, as the reason why the 

 ouananiche are taken with the fly at the surface, for I 

 do not know of any one having mentioned it. Further- 

 more, I found May flies in swarms bursting their cases 

 on the warm day that I was down below the grande 

 chute at Camp Scott. Now these flies, with us, rise in 

 June. I have watched them for years and recorded 

 their rise, but in the Grande Decharge they were rising 

 in August almost on the 1st of September." 



There is some reason for believing that the ouana- 

 niche of Maine and New Hampshire are capable of 

 affording much more sport in the spring of the year 

 than many anglers are aware of. It is not long ago 

 that a gentleman writing to Mr. Cheney from the 

 University Club, New York City, hazarded the asser- 

 tion that the landlocked salmon of New Hampshire 

 and Maine lakes could be taken only with live bait 

 or a spoon. In his reply to this correspondent, which 

 appeared in forest and Stream of November 17, 

 1894, Mr. Cheney says that in Sunapee Lake, land- 



