XV. 



IN NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Trout abound in the northern portions of the Middle 

 States and throughout New England, but of course are 

 disappearing rapidly from the more accessible waters. 

 It is quite out of the question to answer that often-re- 

 peated inquiry of the lover of angling whom business 

 keeps in town, " Where can I find trout-fishing without 

 going far away ?" 



There are streams within a half- day's ride of New 

 York in which there are still many trout, and where an- 

 gling is free to all. But as the habits of the trout are 

 somewhat uncertain, it is by no means a sure thing to go 

 for a single day to such a stream with the anticipation 

 of much sport. 



The northern parts of New Hampshire and Maine, 

 and the eastern parts of Canada, with New Brunswick 

 and Nova Scotia, afford doubtless the best trout-fishing 

 in America or in the world, with perhaps the exception 

 of our Rocky Mountain and other far-western regions, 

 where trout abound as they did a few years ago in Maine. 

 It has been elsewhere stated in this volume that the 

 brook trout grows to a much larger size in the waters of 

 Maine than any where else, so far as our present knowl- 

 edge extends. In Rangely Lake and the waters flowing 

 from it we have taken many speckled trout weighing 



