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the chain of Roach ponds, West Branch pond, Spencer pond and stream, 

 and Little Spencer pond, in all of which trout abound. 



The Canadian Pacific railroad, also, now brings into easy accessibility 

 a number of beautiful small lakes. 



The train is taken at Greenville, and at intervals of only a mile or two, 

 as it journeys westward, these are passed. 



Among them the Holeb and Attean lakes and Long and Indian ponds 

 are the most noted. At Holeb lake there is, in addition to the public 

 hotel, a number of handsome club-houses, owned by New Hampshire and 

 Boston sportsmen, and many are the fine catches of fish that are made in 

 the crystal waters of this lovely pond. 



Attean lake is about four miles in length, and contains a number of 

 pretty wooded islands. Its shores are covered with forest growth, and 

 rising, as they do, abruptly into mountain heights, give the little lake a 

 most picturesque surrounding. It has a hard, gravel bottom, and the water 

 is cold and clear. 



It is an ideal spot for the angler, trout being very abundant and often 

 of large size. 



Game is also very plentiful around this lake. Last season over one 

 hundred deer were shot here, together with ducks and partridges without 

 number. 



In all the ponds and small lakes of this section, ducks are much more 

 numerous than they are in the Rangeley lake region, probably on account 

 of the feed that they obtain here in the bogs and meadows, which is absent 

 in the other localities. 



For the accommodation of sportsmen, seventeen log cabins have been 

 erected at Attean lake, each with a great open fireplace, something after 

 the plan of those erected at Bemis by Captain Barker. These will be a 

 great convenience to sportsmen, who wish for a little privacy, and will be 

 appreciated by gentlemen who are accompanied by their families. 



The great majority of anglers who visit the Maine fishing localities 

 use the artificial fly, the old-time bait fishermen having been converted to 

 the daintier and more sportsmanlike and effective methods with the fly- rod. 



The question which is so often asked, " Which are the best flies for 

 Maine waters " ? is a difficult one to answer. 



It depends upon the season, and the condition of the water. The 

 writer has had good success in very early spring, when others were depend- 

 ing almost entirely on bait fishing and trolling, with a medium-sized yel- 

 low-bodied fly, with a yellow or white hackle and scarlet and white wings, 

 which he used as a "sinker " instead of surface fly. It is not named in the 

 books, having been tied to order. For later fishing the following have 

 proved very taking : Montreals, with red body and yellow body, and light 

 and dark wings ; stone fly, with brown body ; black gnats, with lead-colored 



