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low, bare hills covered only with caribou 
moss and a few contorted spruces. They 
stretched far away finally ending in a 
distant range of purple mountains. 
The first rays of a very pale sun 
warned us that it was high time to start 
fishing. Clumsily, for our fingers were 
numb, we put our rods together and start- 
ed whipping the stream. The long line 
from my thirteen and a half foot pole 
shot out, and the fly lit lightly on the 
water only to be drawn in without indue-’ 
ing a rise from either a salmon or a trout. 
Woxking up stream I gradually ap- 
proached the rapids where I could see oc- 
casionally the gray back of a salmon as he 
rose and sank again after sucking in a fly 
of some kind. Tense with the excitement 
which only a salmon fisherman can know 
I cast a Jock Scott onto the waters of 
the foaming and churning pool at the foot 
. of the falls. No luck. What was the 
matter? I thought the cast a perfect one. 
Tried again. No luck. Changed my fly 
to a large double hooked Silver Doctor 
and waited four or five minutes, then cast 
again to the head of the pool where the 
foam was thickest. A large salmon shot 
out of the water with the Silver Doctor 
firmly hooked in the corner of his mouth. 
Then the fight began in earnest. Off 
down stream he went taking thirty or 
forty yards with him. I just managed to 
stop him before he left the pool and could 
get into the white water of the rapids 
below, where it would be mighty hard to 
stop him. Back again he came while I 
tried vainly to reel in the line. Across 
the pool he tore and leaped full three feet 
out of water, shaking his head to dislodge 
the fly. No use, the rod was keeping too 
tight a strain on the line for that trick to 
work. A determined rush and he was out 
of the pool and on his way down the 
rapids with me after him, trying to keep 
the line from catching on the many snags 
and rocks. Finally I stopped him about 
a hundred yards below in another pool. 
Here the fight started all over again. 
Back and forth, out of water, down to the 
bottom he went using every trick a salmon 
knows, but in vain. I had him hooked too 
firmly and at last he drifted up floating 
on his side. Nearer and nearer I pulled 
him and slowly lowered the gaff into the 
water. He saw it and was off again but 
not for long. He soon gave out and this 
time was successfully gaffed and pulled 
out on the rocks. I realized then to the 
full the joy of conquest as I laid him on 
the moss under some bushes. Long, 
heavy, with broad silver sides, he was a 
beauty. On the scales he weighed a little 
over twenty-seven pounds. 
Before the sun set I had landed two 
more fish, but neither was as large as the 
first. Taking a short cut back over the 
hills I looked on the bay and its beauty 
was indeed great. Over against the far- 
ther shore, which showed as a dark black 
line of high forbidding cliffs, drifted three 
opaque white icebergs, their tops tinted a 
beautiful pink by the last rays of the set- 
ting sun. Across the water, birds of every 
kind were winging their way, some swift- 
ly and others slowly. Beneath me in the 
marsh, which fringed a beaver pond, a 
duck quacked, and far away on some in- 
land pond a loon called its wierd cry. 
"Vynant Davis Hubbard, Mass. 
The term “Vacation Land” is a most fitting one to cover New Hampshire, Vennont. Massa- 
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. Within these States the sportsman 
vacationist will find fishing, hunting, boating and all other forms of outdoor recreation. 
DIRECTORY OF RESORTS FOR SPORTSMEN 
IMPORTANT — At the time the following information was furnished, many resorts and 
camps were unable to specify their daily and weekly rates. In writing for booklets or 
reservations it is advisable to ask for definite information regarding rates. This applies 
to all resorts listed, including those where rates are given. 
Rates 
P, 0. Address. Hotel or Camp. 
Alton, N. H Fifield House 
Antrim, N. H Greystone Lodge 
Averill, Vt. Cold Spring Camp 
Bantam, Conn Holiday Farm 
Barnard, Vt Silver Lake House 
Barre, Vt Hotel Barre 
Barton, Vt Hotel Barton 
Becket, Mass Mt. Lake Farm 
Benton, N. II Parker House 
Berlin, N. H Berlin House 
Bethel, Conn Ridgewold Inn 
Bethlehem, N. H The Alpine 
Bradford, N. II Norman Villa 
Brandon, Vt Brandon Inn 
Bretton Woods, N. II The Mt. Pleasant 
Bristol, N. H Lake View Farm 
Bristol, N. H Pleasant View Farm... 
Brookfield, Conn The Maples 
Burlington, Vt Hotel Vermont 
Canaan, Conn Elmslea Farm 
Canaan, N. II Canaan Inn 
Chester, Vt The Maples 
Colebrook, N. H Camp Diamond 
Contoocook, N. II Mt. Lookout House.... 
Derry, N. H Beaver Lake House.... 
East Dorset, Vt Wilson House 
Errol, N. H Umbagog Camps 
Franconia, N. H Pleasant View Farm... 
George’s Mills, N. II The Elm Lodge 
Hinsdale, Mass Kirchner Farm 
Intervale, N. H Bellevue 
Tackson, N. H Jackson Falls House.... 
Kearsarge, N. H Russell Cottages 
Kent, Conn Kent Inn 
Lakeville, Conn Interlaken Inn 
Lenox, Mass Curtis Hotel 
Litchfield, Conn Phelps Tavern 
Manchester, Vt Equinox House 
Meredith, N. II Prospect House 
New London, N. II Glengae 
New Milford, Conn New England House.... 
North Conway, N. II Sunset Inn 
Plymouth, N. H The Riverview 
Princeton, Mass Princeton Inn 
Ridgefield, Conn Mill River Inn 
St. Albans, Vt The Tavern 
South Lyndeboro, N. H Briarcliff Farm 
Stockbridge, Mass. Heaton Hall 
Sugar Hill, N. II Hotel Lookout 
Sunapee Lake, N. II Ben Mere Inn 
Sunapee Lake, N. II Pleasant Home 
Sunapee Lake, N. H Sunapee Inn 
Sunapee Lake, N. H The Elm Lodge 
Twin Mountain, N. II Grand View House 
Washington, Conn The Gunnery Inn 
Weirs, N. H Lakeside House 
Whitefield, N. H Mountain View House. 
Wilton, N. H Souhegan Inn 
Wolfeboro, N. H Hotel Elmwood 
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Day 
Week 
50 
$3.00 
$12.50 
125 
4.00 
21.00 
75 
3.00 
20.00 
60 
2.50 
14.00 
40 
2.50 
10.00 
100 
3.00 
17.50 
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2.50 
12.00 
20 
10.00 
30 
2.00 
10.00 
100 
3.00 
17.50 
4.00 
14.00 
80 
4.00 
21.00 
15 
8.00 
75 
3.00 
15.00 
350 
5.00 
35.00 
25 
2.00 
10.00 
25 
2.00 
10.00 
15 
7.00 
300 
3.50 
10 
1.50 
10.00 
40 
4.00 
29.00 
. 25 
2.09 
10.50 
. 80 
4.00 
21.00 
100 
3.00 
9.00 
. 40 
2.56 
12.00 
. 25 
2.00 
9.00 
3.50 
21.00 
. 35 
2.00 
11.00 
. 60 
3.50 
16.00 
. 50 
2.50 
12.00 
125 
3.00 
17.50 
. 80 
3.50 
14.00 
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3.09 
17.00 
. 40 
2.00 
10.00 
.150 
3.00 
14.00 
.200 
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35.00 
.100 
4.09 
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.350 
5.56 
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. 40 
2.00 
10.00 
. 50 
2.06 
10.00 
. 50 
2.50 
15.00 
.100 
3.50 
14.00 
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2.50 
12.00 
. 75 
3.00 
14.00 
. 50 
2.00 
15.00 
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3.50 
21.00 
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2.00 
10.00 
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.125 
3.50 
17.50 
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3.50 
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3.50 
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3.00 
16.00 
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FISH AND GAME LAWS 
Sportsmen should obtain Fish and Game Laws covering whatever State it may be desired 
to visit. These can be obtained as follows : 
New Hampshire: — M. L. Bartlett. Fish and Game Comm., Concord, N. H. ; Vermont: — 
L. Leavens. Fish and Game Comm., Montpelier, Vt. ; Massachusetts: — Wm. C. Adams, 
Comm, of Fisheries and Game, Boston, Mass.; Rhode Island: — Comm, of Birds, Provi- 
dence, R. I.; Connecticut:— State Board of Fisheries and Game, Hartford, Conn.: New 
York: — George D. Pratt,. Dept, of Conservation, Albany, N. Y. 
