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FOREST AND STREAM 
“I hear de paddle dip, dip, dip! Wance more 1 hear de loon.” 
to twenty-five mountain peaks which, like sen¬ 
tinels, keep watch over its waters. 
At the beginning of the season and up to the 
first of July the best fishing for big trout is to 
be had at the “read” of the lake. The likely 
places are off Wilb.ir Brook, Flatiron Brook, 
Snowman’s Point and in Rocky Cove, Snow¬ 
man’s Cove, Skedaddler’s Cove, and also 
along the rocky shores, and especially just 
off the many nameless sn all rocky points 
on both shores of the lake. It is at such 
places, where the water is from four to eight 
feet deep, that the big trout go after dwelling 
for many weeks on soft muddy bottoms in deep 
ice-covered waters; here it is they indulge in 
their “spring cleaning” by scouring themselves 
on the sandy, gravelly a.nd rocky bottoms. At 
the other end of the lake, the “foot,” good fish¬ 
ing is to be had at almost any p ace along shore, 
in Norton’s Brook, the Big Inlet, Grassy Cove, 
off Atwood’s Point and on the Big Shoals. Al¬ 
most all of these places prove exceptionally good, 
year after year, and many good catches are made 
nearly every day, but the trout do not run as 
large as those caught at the “head” end of the 
lake. 
The fall fishing (that is, during the last of 
August and all of September) for big fish as 
well as the smaller ones is at the “foot” of the 
lake around the lily pads, near the “outlet” and 
the places already mentioned, and not at the 
“head” of the lake, where the best fishing is 
found in the spring. 
Not but what there is some good fishing to be 
had at the “head” of the. lake, but the average 
size of the fish caught will be about the same as 
the fish taken at the “fcot” of the lake in the 
early part of the season. The tables seem to be 
turned and the turning process continues year 
after year, as I know from personal observation 
and experience of many years. 
Little Kennebago Lake is situated about two 
miles north of the larger lake; it is one mile 
long and not quite three-quarters of a mile wid • 
at its widest point. Its water supply comes from 
the upper section of Kennebago Stream, which 
enters the lake at the northern end. It is also 
augmented somewhat by the water flowing into 
it from Soule’s Brook, which is located on the 
westerly shore of the lake. 
Little Kennebago Lake empties into the middle 
section of Kennebago Stream at its southerly end. 
As a matter of fact, Kennebago Stream flows 
directly through Little Kennebago Lake from 
inlet to outlet. 
Nearly everyone who visits Kennebago, if only 
for a short stay, makes a trip in boat or canoe 
up stream to this gem of a lake for a delightful 
day’s outing. The start from camp is usually 
made early and the return from the lake is made 
late, for one is nearly always very reluctant to 
leave such beautiful surroundings. Lunch is 
served in “the open,” ccoked over hardwood 
coals in a frying-pan or on a broiler by a guide, 
who is a past master in the art of preparing both 
wholesome and tasty food for such occasions; 
and it never goes begging but is often begged 
for by the honestly hungry campers. 
Spring fishing in this lake is not good if one 
expects to catch good-sized treut, but there is 
hardly a time during the entire season that trout 
running from a fifth to a quarter of a pound 
(just the right size for eating) cannot be taken 
by an angler of average ability. The places to 
fish at this time are at the outlet, along shore, 
off Soule’s Brook and near the lily pads on the 
upper west shore of the lake. Little Kenne¬ 
bago is noted for its “Big Pcol.” and many noted 
men and anglers have cast over it with wet and 
dry flies. It is situated at the ‘head” of the lake 
just to the south of where the main arm of the 
Upper Kennebaeo Stream enters. The extreme 
area embraced in what is called the “Big Pool,” 
is about one hundred and twenty-five feet long by 
sixty-five to seventy feet wide; on the easterly 
side are a number of bunches of lily pads and 
there are two sandbars which run into and par-* 
tially through the pool. These sandbars shift 
more or less from year to year but it is on them 
and around the lily pads where the large trout 
