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Trout Fishing in the Kangeley Lakes . I 
The Don Salmon Fisheries. 
Scotch Notes .. 3 
A Case of Thames Trout . 4 
English Lobsters Successfully Transported Alive to 
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Notes and Queries . (J 
Poaching on the Tweed . (! 
Annual Sermon for 1892 G 
The Big Conway Salmon . G 
Proposed New Bye-laws . 7 
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Fishing on the Exeter Canal . 7 
Lake Pike Fishing in the Midlands. 8 
“ Myamma . 9 
Zig-Zag Routes to Chicago .10 
Angling in Kent.11 
Recollections of Fishing in Ireland.12 
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Correspondence .14 
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 7th, 1893. 
TROUT FISHING IN THE RANGBLEY 
LAKES. 
SPORT WITH LAND-LOCKED SALMON. 
Bv AN English Angler. 
i hon’t know whether any of your readers have 
read “ Sport with Gun and Rod in American 
Woods and Waters,” but if not, they have a treat 
in store. Every article is written evidently by a 
man whom you feel has full knowledge of and a 
great love for his subject, and the book is literally 
full of engravings and wood-cuts, which put our 
English illustrations to shame in point of finish 
and artistic effect. 
But my intention is not to puff a book, but to 
give you a short account of what the perusal of it 
made me do, and the result. 
About three winters ago I had been reading 
an article on “ Trout Fishing in the Rangeley 
Lakes,” and I was fired by the recital of the 
number and size of the trout, but still more by 
the mention of the presence of land-locked 
salmon in these lakes. I found afterwards that 
Rangeley Lakes is rather a misnomer, there being 
only one Rangeley Lake, or as it is usually called 
by its old Indian name “ Oquossac,” and the 
chain of lakes includes also Capsuptic, Mooseluc- 
maguntic, Molechunkamunk or Richardson, 
Welokennebacook, and Umbagog—all connected 
by short rivers ivitli one another. Oquossac 
acquired the name of Rangeley from an English¬ 
man of that name, who settled on the northern 
shore and built a holding, mill, &c. All around 
is wilderness except on this north shore of 
Rangeley, and a little to the south of Umbagog. 
Having had, in this country, experience only of 
“ fresh run ” or “ kelt fish,” a fervent desire was 
awakened in my breast to know what kind of a 
beast a salmon could be which never went, and 
never had been to the sea. I pictured him a 
brown and perhaps even spotted like a lake trout. 
The curiosity and temptation were too great, and 
1 went. 
After concluding my business in New York, I 
found myself about the end of the first week in 
May in Boston, armed with an introduction from 
kind Milwaukee friends to an eminent doctor 
there, who received me like a brother, and, besides 
giving me an armful of good advice, offered to 
lend me all his fishing tackle. As 1 had brought 
a sufficient supply with me, 1 had to decline his 
otherwise good ofl'ev. In parentheses, let me 
warn brother anglers about the troubles of getting 
through the New York custom house. I was 
formally examined before four or five officials as 
to whether my rods were new', whether for sale 
and what they cost, how long I had had them, 
Ac., before I was allowed to go free. 
As all the lakes were reported still frozen hard 
under feet of ice, I had to wait until news came 
of the ice breaking up. This was about the Loth 
May, and I left Boston about six in the evening 
for Portland, where 1 stayed the night. Next 
morning the journey wascontinued to Farmington, 
where the traveller on fishing intent has to change 
to a narrow gauge (about 2ft.), following the Sandy 
River,passing through Strong,arrivingatPhil]ip’s 
(the terminus) about middle day. This is a 
pretty, wooden-built American village, with raised 
plank side-walks, and planted with rows of trees. 
At the end of the village, towards the west, is a 
capital wooden hotel, and here I put up, to find 
the place packed with fishers—alas! all frozen 
out. The road to Greenvale, the nearest jioint on 
Rangeley Lake, twenty miles distant, was blocked 
by snow drifts, one of which was tw'O miles long, 
in addition to which Rangeley Tiake was reported 
still frozen up. I obtained a very comfortable bed¬ 
room, and went down to the dining or coffee- 
room, set out with numerous little tables, waited 
upon by nigger boys. I was shown to a small 
table where sat a young lady and her husband, 
who, it afterwards transpired, was the president 
of the New York Natural History Club. 
Understand that this village and all the lakes 
treated of are situated in the county of Maine, 
where you can obtain most things, except a drink, 
at least, what a fisher would term a drink. No 
wine, no beer, and no spirits, and the diplomacy', 
shifts, tricks, expedients and trouble expended on 
obtaining a supply are incredible. 
Going into a room on the basement, I found it 
literally packed with fishers, all deep in poker and 
well supplied with choice whiskey. Bourbon, and 
rye, which they had brought with them. The 
manner in which they made the Britisher welcome 
was a sight to be seen, and a thing to remember ! 
We had three things in common at once— 
whiskey, pipes, and the love of the art, and, with 
such a foundation for a commencement, in an 
incredibly short time we were the best of friends. 
An Englishman of sociable ways and manners 
will find the warmest welcome all over the States. 
His own countrymen have a solid wall of social 
ice around them, which requires a considerable 
amount of thawing before the true individual 
underneath is reaehed, which thawing has to be 
done either by means of full introductions or of 
contact for a prolonged period in the same house. 
Our cousins are not so punctilious. Given a man 
who can talk, and is not afraid of doing so, and 
knows what he is talking abou|| looks a gentle¬ 
man and has a pleasant manner, there are few 
places on earth where he will sooner feel at home 
than in America. 
After two days the road to Greenvale and 
Rangeley w'as reported open, and wo left in 
batehes. Meantime, I had improved my acquain¬ 
tance with Mr. K-and his wife, and he and I 
agreed to chum on this outing. His original 
intention had been to fish up from one lake to 
another; from RangeUy to Parmachenee Lake 
taking about four months, camping out and then 
going into camp, near the Canadian frontier, for 
the deer and elk shooting until driven into 
civilisation by the snow and frost. His costume, 
as well as that of the other fishers, amused me 
greatly, as it seemed calculated to withstand all 
the hard work and tear likely to be met with in 
six months’ work in a dense jungle or primeval 
forest. From head to toe he was clothed in 
dressed deer skin of a good brown colour, just the 
thing for shooting, but somehow looking too 
formidable for fishing. 
If I knew how to do it, I should like to give you 
here some idea of the lakes and rivers in this 
region. There are three ways of entering this 
vast sporting district. Firstly, in the way we 
have come from Boston vbi Portland and Farm- 
ingham on the east side; secondly, by Grand 
Trunk Railway to Bryant’s Pond or Bethel on 
the south side; and thirdly', by the same rail to 
Groveton, and up the Connecticut River to the 
we.st side. I believe the most picturesque is that 
by the south, as the traveller strikes the big 
Androscoggin River at Bethel, and thenee to the 
southernmost lake Umbagog, and thus through 
one lovely lake after another he can proceed right 
up to Rangeley Lake, which was our destination. 
Entering thus from the south, after going 
through Umbagog Lake, a short length of about 
five miles on the Rapid River leads to Lower 
Riehardson Lake, through the Narrows to Upper 
Riehardson, and passing the big Upper Dam into 
Mooselucmacuntie Lake, and then three miles dr 
so of river into Rangeley Lake, a total of about 
sixty miles. • 
'Pile wonderful charm of this part is, that you 
can take your canoe from river to lake and lake 
to river for hundreds of miles almost without a 
“ carry,” and with short “ carries ” you can work 
round during the whole fishing season to your 
original starting point. 
What a country for the sportsman! No very 
high mountains, no Swiss scenery, but still 
mountains high enough to please the artist’s eye 
and to be seen from all points, charming in out¬ 
line and clothed to the summits. 
Generally speaking, this enormous district, with 
its hundreds of lakes, in all of which there is 
mist excellent trout fishing, and its innumerable 
streams and rivers, has never been settled. When 
once you leave Rangeley village facing north, 
there is not even a house or farm until you pass 
over into Canada. This remark holds good 
generally over the whole district, and the reason 
that it has never been settled is that it is one vast 
forest. One sees near Ringeley attempts at 
clearing, that is, cutting down the trees and 
trying to burn the stumps, and a very sorry 
sight it is, but Nature seems to be mightier than 
man in these regions, and evidences are abundant 
where man has given up the struggle and Nature 
has not been long in hiding man’s vain attempt 
by a new growth nearly as robust as the original 
one. The region extends to more than 100,000 
square miles, and one may say its only com¬ 
mercial product is timber. But so heavy is the 
timber that the growth far exceeds the cutting 
down, and one may journey for weeks and fail 
to find any evidence of man’s destructibility. 
The principal growth consists of birch, beech, 
maple, ash, hemlock, spruce, fir, cedar and pine. 
There is every variety of shooting, as the guide 
says, “ from the lively little squirrel to the 
lordly moose,” and the region round Parmachenee 
Lake is a paradise for shooters. 
It may be useful here to mention that the 
American term “ pond ” indicates a small lake, it 
may be two or three miles long and a couple of 
miles broad; still it is only a pond. What is the 
line of demarcation between a lake and a pond I 
have never learnt. 
We will now return to our hotel at Phillip's, 
where we left the crowd of fishermen and my 
friend K., all ready accoutred for the fray. Two 
parties had got the start of us, and when pur 
buggy came round, my friend insisted on my being 
the Jehu, although I did not know an inch of the 
road. We had eighteen or twenty miles before 
us, and proceeded merrily up to a village called 
Madrid, on the Sandy River about eight rniles 
from Phillip’s. Here the road leaves the river, 
and commences to ascend very sharply up to 
Beech House, 1200ft. above Phillips, and I had to 
negociate the before mentioned snow drift two 
miles up this steep hill. Fortunately nothing 
seems to come amiss to an American “ buggy ” 
or “ buckboard,” and we arrived in due course, 
safe and sound at Greenvale, having passed 
