BROOK TROUT 



years were caught upon trolling lines, though some 

 very large ones rose to the fly, and Mr. Henry O. 

 Stanley, of Dixfield, now and for over thirty years past 

 one of the Fish Commissioners of the State of Maine, 

 has a record of several hundred brook trout taken with 

 the fly, and running from three to nine and a half 

 pounds each. 



Lake Batiscan, which is noted for its large trout, is 

 about midway between the city of Quebec and Lake 

 St. John, and only a few miles distant from the line of 

 the railway. Dean Robbins, of Albany, N. Y. ; Dr. 

 Robert M. Lawrence, of Lexington, Mass., and a num- 

 ber of friends secured twelve brook trout in Lake 

 Batiscan in 1895, whose aggregate weight was sev- 

 enty-two pounds. The dean caught, by trolling, an 

 eight and a quarter pound trout, and another of the 

 party one of eight and a half pounds. The latter was 

 twenty-six inches long and seventeen in girth. The 

 Hon. W. B. Kirk, of Syracuse, N. Y., has to his credit 

 a nine-pound trout taken from the same lake. Mr. 

 Alfred Harmsworth, proprietor of the London Daily 

 Mail, saw a number of seven and eight pound fish 

 from this lake at the Garrison Club, in Quebec, in 

 1894, and guessed their average weight at ten pounds, 

 as related at the time by the late Mr. A. N. Cheney^ 

 in the columns of Forest and Stream. Almost all the 

 waters of the Triton Tract, in which Lake Batiscan is 

 situated, are noted for the large size of the fontinalis 

 which inhabit them. The late Colonel A. L. Light 



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