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New England Waters. 
BdsjbN, May 24.— It would kt pMty hard to reach 
sth-grfli Bostbn representative business filch just now. 
3?hey have goile beyond the reach of mail, telephone", #r 
telegraph. This just suits theiil ; they are after rest, arid 
tiriiisiderable first class trout fishing, in tm P^rty. are 
Messrs. W. j. Follett. James L. Richards, John & Tdtfl- 
thin arid. W- J. Leckie. Gebtge W. Brown, the warm 
friend of ail the party, wag unable to: tfe. with them this 
year. They left Bostbh Mbndciy night, landing St Nor- 
cross, Me*, next morning. This lot^tfoii is ; at the loot 
of North Twin Lake, which they w'e'ilt tip . by little 
steanief. Thefice they go up Pemadumcook Laiie Spq 
through to Ambajejus; thence by ( canoes and carries 
around the two falls into the west branch of the Penob- 
scot; up this- branch to Sourdnahunk Stream, find up 
this stfc'iifn to their camp on Foster and Knowltori 
Pond. There they are into the woods. "God's own 
country," as Mr. Brown remarked, When he got there 
last year. It takes all of a very long day, if they tiEtve good 
luck in the canoes, meeting no bad head winds nor no' 
lbg drives' df jams. Five carries they have to make; 
the longest about fifty fm'htiteS and up some of the steep- 
est of hills. The woods are full of fjQtlds, and every 
pond is full of trout of good size. They fish with noth- 
ing but artificial flies, killing no more than they need for 
the c'atilp table: Much of the time when fishing they 
Mfe trying to doge tlie little fellows. See them when 
trley f'ethr'ri; bankers, brokers atnd fflerghants. Hear 
them tell about their fishing, . their trip, everi riiotlths 
afterward, and then tell me, who dares, that their short 
vacation has been in vain. There are nearly iS,6ob jUst 
shell biding places in northern Maine, New Hampshire 
and Canada, and it is the business of the Forest and 
Stream to advocate them; a floble work, for which all 
who know are grateful. 
The George P. Bullard party, noted last week, did not 
have the success at Grand Lake Stream that they had 
fesisbfl to eXpeet; The weather was cold, and somehow 
the salmon did n6t rise. ,Mf ; E. Frank Lewis, a genu- 
ine angler and one of the party, remarked vesterday 
that "Grand Lake Stream is not what it iis'ed to be," 
Immediately another remarked that "it is fished a great 
deal more than formerly." They caaight a few rather 
small salmon; For some reason the salmon would not 
rise to the fly, arid bait-fishing in Grand Lake Stream 
is not very satisfactory, especially tb those fond of the 
artificial foil. They tried the streams in the" vicinity for 
trout, but with poor success, even there. 
Ex-Mayor Edward L. Pkkard, of Newton, has just 
i;eturned from his annual fishing trip to the home of the 
Oqiiossoe Angling Association, Mosselucmaguntic Lake, 
where he has been with a party bf fishing friends for a 
couple of weeks. He was there ofi the eold Saturday, 
the day of the terrible gale, when even the best of the 
little steamers dare not venture" out on the lake. The 
mercury indicated 20 one morning, with plenty of ice 
in the boats and in all the little pools sheltered from 
the wind. Mayor Pickafd is" a fisherman who seldom 
gets beaten, however, and his score Of tfottt and salmon 
Was thirty; none saved under three pounds. His largest 
fish were a trout and a salmon; both of five pounds 
weight, 
Mr. Frank W. Wise has returned from his annual 
fishing in Nova Scotia waters. His long-time fishing 
friend, Mr. Boss, was prevented from going this year, 
but some West Newton business men helped to make 
the party about complete. Brook trout fishing was what 
they went for, and what they got in good volume. Mr. 
Wise says: "Ail We Ought to -have had," They found 
high water, however, with the fishing not quite equal to 
former seasons. . ... 
A parly of Boston merchants left for Moosehead Fri- 
day evening, including W. S. Hinman, George Brad- 
ford, Louis Masson, H. S. Hanson, and one or two 
others. r%-nsiiihg is what they want, and doubtless 
what they will get, .since the Weather ifi most decidedly 
Warm, and warm weather always starts fly-fishing at 
Moosehead; that lake Where so much of that sport is 
enjoyed, and with a good deal of success. 
Under better- Weather Lake Anburn ia bettering the 
father doubtful reputation it was getting as a trout and 
salmon lake. On Sunday last— they do fish Sundays 
there — forty trout and salmon were caught. Two of the 
salmon weighed about ten pounds each, and five or six 
of the others Weighed from four fo eight pounds, 
May 26. — Warmer weather seems to have improved 
the angling at the several New England resorts. At the 
Bangor pool the fishing has been much better, with a 
number of good fish taken within a few days. One of 
the notable features has been the catching of three big 
fish by Mrs. George Willey, the combined weight of 
which was S3 pounds. Mrs. Willey's largest salmon 
weighed 23 pounds, and -this establishes her record as 
that of the champion woman angler of the Penobscot. 
At Moosehead the fly-fishing has begun to be good. 
Some Boston and Bangor anglers returned from those 
waters on Saturday, with a record of 90 trout, mostly 
taken on the . fly. Very good fishing is being had at 
Mooselucmaguntic Lake, especially since better weather. 
President F. A. Turner, of the Qquossoc Angling Asso- 
ciation, has been at the club house for a couple of weeks, 
and has made a record of 70 trout and salmon, mostly on 
the fly- While trolling in the Eddy he secured a salmon 
of 5 pounds. Enoch F. Coburn, of Lawrence, usually 
one" of the most successful anglers, has made a record 
on Upper Mooselucmaguntic waters, of 250 trout and 
salmon; many of the smaller fish returned to the water. 
At the Upper Dam the Lazy Tom Club, formed at 
Moosehead several seasons ago, has fished this season. 
The ladies have led with big fish, Mrs. F. L. Judkins 
taking a salmon of Sy 2 pounds, and Miss Viola Judkins 
a salmon of 6y 2 pounds and a trout of 4^2 pounds. 
Mrs. Dearborn secured a trout of 4V2 pounds and one 
of 3 pounds. Four of her trout weighed jointly 7 
pounds. Mr. True, of Augusta, has taken a salmon at 
the Upper Dam weighing 8$4 pounds. Mr. L. A. 
•Reese stopping at the same place, returned one day last 
week ' from B Pond with eleven trout, weighing 1,5 
pounds, all taken on the fly. ' Senator W. P. Frye has 
gone up to his cottage near Gupsuptic Narrows for his 
Spring fishing. He is accompanied by his daughter, 
Airs. Briggs,- of Auburn-, Mr, F- P. Lee, of'Milford, 
has landed a trout of 6% pounds at Bemis. Good 
catches have been made about Haine's Landing. Mr. 
C. H.- Seward, of Boston, has landed a salmon of ioJ-2 
pounds • one of the finest fish ever taken there. Ira 
Richards, of North Attleboro, Mass., has taken two sal- 
man, 3 and S-yi pounds; H. W. Priest, Beach Bluffs, 
MaSs.y salmon, 5^ pounds; F. S. Snyder, Boston, sal- 
mon, 4 pou'dd^ E. W. Nash, Boston, trout, 4 pounds; 
two salmon, 2 and 3 pounds; L. H. Torry, Worcester, 
sahiioft, 4Y2 pounds; J. B. Sleigh, Springfield, two sal- 
mon, 4 and 3 pounds. A, W. Tedcastle, Boston, has 
made the champion l'ee'ord at Haine's Landing, by catch- 
ing two salmon on the same line and at once; weighing 
4 and 4Vi pounds. 
_ t At Rangeley some good fish have been taken. T. L. 
rfarib-ft eaiight a salmon last week that weighed 7 r A 
pounds. The iturteva'nl party of Springfield is there. 
This party has fished a . great many seasons , at the 
fta'rigekys. The largest flih taken by the party this 
time was a salmon of &/ 2 pounds, A host of smaller 
fish have been taken, The Timberlake* party, noted last 
week as "angling notables," caught a total of 53 fish, 
Judge . Whitehouse being high line with a total of 12 
fish. The veteran angler, H. W. Clarke, has arrived at 
Mountain View". Mr. Clarke has fished the Rangeleys 
for more than twenty years, almost always with the same 
guide, David Haines. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Patridge, of 
Boston, have been fishing at Mountain View. Mrs. 
Patridge has gaught a salmon of 6 pounds, against her 
husband's largest, SVi pounds. Mr. Patridge is a crack 
revolver and rifle shot, as the scores of the Forest 
and Stream will show. M. B. Damon, of Fitchburg, 
Mas§., has taken seven salmon, the largestbj^ pounds. 
The largest trout of the season at Mountain View has 
weighed 6 pounds, caught by T. C. Sheldon, of Fitch- 
burg. 
Some of the late Moosehead scores are excellent. D. 
F. Hunt and party, Of Boston, has had a string of 35 
trout, weighing 50 pounds. Iti a morning's fishing Mr. 
Hunt caught four trout, weighing ii pounds. Moose- 
head parties of several years' experience are unusually 
numerous, including Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Fales, of 
Boston, with a good record; the Tisdale party, of Leo- 
minster, with all the fish they care for; the Camp Com- 
fort Club, with records of 57, 68 and 64 fish in succes- 
sive dayS, largely trout; Walter F. DeHaven and Henry 
W. Wise, of Philadelphia, with a record of the first 
trout on the fly, 28 in one day, all of fair size; H. B. 
Leach, F. J. Davis and C. W. Deering, of Boston, good 
strings, one of 12, the largest 3 pounds. F. W. Lee, 
R\ A. Day, J. J. Mahoney and W. D. Mayer, of Law- 
rence, have made a good record with a trout of 5 
pounds, on the fly. 
The Megantic Club people are rapidly getting into 
line — onto lines, rather — the ice having been very slow 
about getting out of all the waters of the preserve. S. 
L. Barbour and Dr. A. B. Kellogg, of Hartford, and 
£.- C, Woodruff and J. E. Woodruff are already at the 
preserve. P. C. Wiggin and party and L. O. Crane 
leave on the 2cjth for a week or more. 
Felix Taussig, Leo Pickerf and W. S. LaFlamme, of 
Montreal, are off for Grand Lake. There seems to be 
some doubt among Boston anglers as to the legality of 
fishing Grand Lake Stream before the first of June, 
though it is understood that such fishing has been done 
there this spring. Mr. Taussig, with E. C. Stevens, 
Edrie Eldridge, of Boston, and John E. Clowes, of Sals- 
bury, Vt., will make the first notable pickerel party to 
Lake Dunmore this season. Lake Dunmore, Salsbury, 
has a record of some monster pickerel, one of over a 
dozen pounds having been taken there by Mr. Stevens. 
Special. 
Canadian Angling Notes. 
The season in Canada, which promised to be one of 
the earliest on record, is now rather behind than in ad- 
vance of the average, and those anglers who came here 
some weeks ago counting upon obtaining very early 
spring fishing because of the early disappearance of the 
snow in the open, have been ' grievously disappointed. 
The extreme cold of the last four or five weeks has re- 
tarded the thaw of the snow which remained in the forest 
shades and deferred for some time the disappearance of 
the ice upon a number of the northern lakes. Not only 
is the water exceptionally high everywhere, but it is ex- 
tremely cold. There has been no warm weather as yet to 
encourage the trout to seek surface lures. Even trolling 
and bait-fishing has been poor up to a few days ago. 
General Henry, U. S. Consul, and Mr. Root, of Boston, 
went up to Lake Edward last week and found the water 
too high and cold for good sport. A telegram received 
here to-day reports good catches there yesterday for 
the first time this season, and a number of local anglers 
are preparing to go up to the lake to-morrow- 
In the Jacques Cartier and Talbot Club lakes, which are 
among the earliest of the season in this locality, good 
catches were made last week by bait-fishing, and a party 
of fly-fishers, write that they are having good sport this 
week on the Laurentide Club waters. By next week good 
fly-fishing ought to be general in the Lake St. John and 
St. Maurice districts. Ten days ago a party of Montreal 
anglers, among whom was Judge Robidoux, fished Lake 
Maketsy, one of the best trout lakes north of Three 
Rivers, without taking anything. They were fully a fort- 
night too soon on the water. 
For the last few days almost every train coming here 
from the United States has brought its contingent of 
American anglers. Among those who have already gone 
up to the Triton Club this week are General G. F. Mc- 
Kibbin, of New York, and Messrs. A. K. Hiscock, D. E. 
Petit, E. G. Cole, Geo. E. Baldwin and J. M. Gilbert, of 
Syracuse. They are shortly to be joined by a number of 
others. Mr. A. W. Hooper, of New Haven, passed 
through here this week on his way to the Nonantum pre- 
serve at Lac des Commissaires, and the Messrs. McCor- 
mick, of Florida, are already at Lake Edward. 
Mr. Tolhurst, of Troy, N. Y., left on Tuesday, for tke 
Laurentide Club lakes, and a number of New England 
sportsmen are now on the limits of the Metabetchouan 
Fish and Game Club at Kiskisink. In this party are State 
Comptroller Chamberlain, of New Haven, and Messrs. 
C. P. Peets, New Haven; W. M. Clark, New York; Chas. 
F, Gamier, of Liverpool, England; W, B, Ives, Chas. 
S. R. Kinal, State Secretary; W. B. Hill, F. Stevenson, 
John W. Coe, Samuel Dodd, C. P. Bradley, Frank M. 
Squire, Geo. A. Fay, F. S. Fay and C. M. Williams, of 
Meriden, Conn. Governor Geo. P. McLean, of Connec- 
ticut, was to have been with the party, but was prevented 
by illness. 
Salmon fishermen are already putting in an appearance. 
Mr. E. C. Fitch, president of the Waltham Watch Com- 
pany, is here preparing to go down to his river, and Dr. 
Johnson, of Cornell University, has already left for the 
Jupitagan, where he will be joined later by Mr. Toland, of 
Philadelphia, Dr. Johnson knows very well that he will 
do no salmon fishing for a couple of weeks yet, but he 
is anxious to get away into the country for a rest, and 
in the meantime will amuse himself among the trout.. 
E. T. D. C. 
Quebec, May 28. 
Random Notes of an Angler. 
The Royal Sport of Salmon Fishing. 
Many years ago I numbered among ray friends a boy 
with an exceedingly inquiring mind. With other things 
he had developed a taste for natural history — a boy's 
taste only, of course — and he often came to me to throw 
light on subjects which were quite beyond his compre- 
hension. Some of the questions he threw at me were 
regular posers, but I made the best bluff I could at an- 
swering them, and he went away impressed, doubtless, 
with my erudition. 
Among these questions were, "If a grizzly bear and a 
lion should have a fight, which would lick?" and "If a 
rhinoceros and elephant should meet in a narrow defile, 
which would make the other back out?" or "If a panther 
were surrounded by a drove of peccaries, what would 
he do?" 
There was one question which he asked, however, that 
was not at all difficult to answer, and that was, "Which 
would you rather kill, a great big man-eating tiger or a 
twenty-pound salmon?" Of course my preference lay 
with the salmon, first, last and always. To be sure, I had 
never had an opportunity to pot a man-eater, and conse- 
quently did not know how great a degree of excitement 
attends such an achievement, but judging by all the other 
varieties of sport that I have indulged in, and I have had 
my share of most that are to be found in this country, I 
unhesitatingly declared, and do so now, that to kill a large 
fresh-run salmon in good, live water is the grandest sport 
that is vouchsafed to us. It is our royal sport, par ex- 
cellence, for it calls for all the endurance, skill, persever- 
ance and judgment that he who would follow it success- 
fully possesses. 
And here I wisli to make myself perfectly clear. By 
salmon fishing I mean that which is done with the fly on 
live water with a pliable rod and with a single gut casting 
line. Trolling for salmon with a. stiff rod from a boat, 
such as is practiced in the Maine and other lakes, with a 
minnow or spinning spoon for bait, is not salmon fishing, 
it is simply potting, for it calls for none of the qualities 
which enter into the genuine sportsman's make-up. 
To the pleasure derived from the art of fly-casting for 
salmon must be added the delight that comes from the 
charming environment of the angler who follows it. What 
can be more exhilarating than to follow, perhaps for 
miles, those grand old mountains streams in which these 
lordly fish make their summer homes? 
The water at one moment is rushing down a steep in- 
cline or tumbling over ledges and boulders sometimes with 
an impatient roar, but oftener with a musical murmur 
which is a distinct charm in itself. Anon, below the 
rapids the stream widens and the foam-flecked water 
deepens into a large pool, in which perhaps are lurking a 
number of the silvery beauties which have just ascended 
from the sea. A light breeze stirs the foliage of the 
trees which grow close to the water's edge, and the de- 
licious aroma of the forest is wafted to the nostrils of him 
who has penetrated to this retired spot. 
Everything in nature assists making a complete whole 
of the angler's enjoyment. 
The songs of forest birds, the busy hum of bees as they 
foray among the wild flowers on the shore, the gaily 
colored butterflies which flutter across the stream, the 
shrill yet musical call of the sandpiper, the rattle of the 
kingfisher and the prating of a pair of the beautiful wood 
ducks, which, solicitous for the welfare of their little 
family, swim up" and down the pool to attract his atten- 
tion from their flock. All these and more lend their 
attractions to the scene. 
I know of no other field sport, trout fishing, perhaps, 
alone excepted, which appeals in a like degree to the 
aesthetic sense of the angler. Amid such delightful sur- 
roundings he fairly revels in the poetic feeling that is 
aroused in him, and he is, for the time being, more and 
better than the mere sportsman. 
Qualities Essential in the Angler. 
I have stated that certain qualities are essential in the 
make-up of the angler who would follow the salmon 
successfully. First of these, and perhaps most important 
of all, is that of endurance. A puny man with weak 
heart, small capacity and poorly developed muscular sys- 
tem, particularly of the arms and legs, would not last long 
on some of the wild Canadian streams where ideal salmon 
fishing is alone found. 
I refer now to those waters which cannot be fished 
from a canoe, but which must be traversed by the angler 
perhaps for a couple of miles between pools, and that 
over ledges and rocks which sometimes rise so high they 
have to be climbed over, but which oftener are two or 
three feet under water, which must be waded. 
Of course when one may stand or^it in a canoe and 
glide leisurely about with a skillful guide to place him v 
on desirable spots, no great physical demand is made on 
him"; he casts his fly, rises and hooks his fish, and after 
playing it a while his guide deftly gaffs it, and then 
when the proper libation is poured in honor of the 
event, the rod and paddle are resumed and casting is 
begun for another fish. 
Fishing de Luxe. 
Now this is really capital sport ; it is salmon fishing de 
luxe. I have enjoyed it rr^ny times, and feope to taste its 
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