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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 

 62° 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. Alwmjs 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 m}'^ 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 an}'- 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 l^ew 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, ]^ew 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- 



