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are to be found and taken during the last of 
August and all of September, and many are 
caught weighing from two to five pounds. 
It is seldom that good-sized trout are ever 
caught in the pool during the spring and summer 
season, and the smaller fish, for some reason or 
other, which I have been una le so far to dis¬ 
cover, do not seem to make it heir habitat. 
In the early days of September it is not an un¬ 
common thing, when the con , tions are right, to 
see six or seven or more boats and canoes around 
this “Big Pool,’’ and all the anglers catching trout, 
and some of them landing large ones. 
Do not run away with the idea, however, that 
trout are caught in these waters with “any old 
fly,” or that skill is not required to make them 
rise and strike, to say nothing about playing and 
landing them when once they are on your hook, 
because if you do you will be sadly disappointed 
and a much wiser angler after a very short expe¬ 
rience. 
Kennebago Stream both above and below Little 
Kennebago Lake is ever changing and has a 
beauty, charm and fascination particularly its own. 
There are many twists and turns throughout its 
length and each one reveals to the observer, as 
they are approached and rounded, many attrac¬ 
tive features, which, when once enjoyed, are 
never to be forgotten. The stream’s environment 
is cons:antly changing; so much so, that it is 
hardly possible, having traversed it many times 
with an interest keenly aroused, to decide which 
of the numerous places are the more beautiful 
and attractive. 
The upper section of Kennebago Stream 
starts below the dam at the foot of the Meadow 
Grounds and runs south to Little Kennebago, a 
distance of about eight miles. The middle sec¬ 
tion of Kennebago Stream starts at the outlet of 
Little Kennebago and runs south to Kennebago 
Falls, a distance of about four miles. 
The stream above Little Kennebago is navi¬ 
gable by boat for about two miles and by canoe 
for about three; these distances being governed 
entirely by the number of passengers and the 
amount of watrr in the stream, but the water 
has to be very low ndeed to prevent making at 
least two or three miles. In this stretch of the 
stream there are many splendid places to fish, a 
number of them being particularly suited to the 
use of the dry fly and the opportunity to cap¬ 
ture good-sized trout is of the best. 
The middle section of the stream, that is, the 
section between Little Kennebago Lake and Ken¬ 
nebago Falls, is navigable its entire length with 
the exception of a short stretch from the dam 
to the Falls. From a point where the connect¬ 
ing stream from Big Kennebago Lake enters the 
main stream, to the dam, fishing is not allowed, 
but this is the only water that is so restricted. 
One of the Isles of the Blest. 
This middle section has many fine fishing places, 
some of the notable ones being Randall’s Pool, 
Bone Yard Pool, Birch Tree Pool, and the Sand 
Bank Pool. During July and August there is 
very little good fishing to be had in this section, 
but in the spring and especially during the month 
of September, it offers the best of sport, and 
good-sized trout are taken by patient and persist¬ 
ent anglers; and by all odds the Bone Yard and 
Sand Bank pools are the two best places. 
Anglers will naturally want to know some¬ 
thing about the flies that are used in the Ken¬ 
nebago waters as well as the size best suited for 
the different periods of the fishing season 
The wet flies that have proved generally suc¬ 
cessful of late years on the waters of Kenne¬ 
bago Section, are the 
Silver Spot 
Montreal 
Grizzly King 
Brown Hackle 
Coachman 
March Brown 
Black Gnat 
White Miller 
Silver Doctor 
Light Tip Montreal 
Professor 
Gray Hackle 
Royal Coachman 
Cow Dung 
Hare’s Ear 
Parmachenee Belle 
As there are no clubs that fish this section 
no records are kept of the size and number of 
trout caught or the names of the flies the trout 
are caught on, except in a few individual cases; 
so it is impossible to give a list of the “most 
taking flies” in their order of success from au¬ 
thentic records. 
While the Parmachenee Belle is still a good 
fly to use at times on these waters, it has proved 
less successful of late years and is not used 
nearly so extensively as formerly on that ac¬ 
count. 
Speaking of the Parmachenee Belle, it is in¬ 
teresting to note that the lack of success with 
this fly in the Kennebago waters does not hold 
good in other waters, notably Parmachenee 
Lake, which is controlled by the Parmachenee 
Club. -It may be that the trout of Parmachenee 
Lake (after which lake the fly was named by its 
originator, Henry P. Wells, who successfully 
fished its waters for many years), still continue 
to pay tribute to this great angler and his fly, 
by making it the most popular and successful 
fly year after year. 
At the Parmachenee Club a careful record is 
kept of all trout caught that are three-quarters 
of a pound in weight and over, with the name 
of the fly used in each case. The club records 
show that for a period of sixteen years, out of 
a total of fifty-two different flies used, the Par¬ 
machenee Belle is credited with catching thirty- 
five per cent, of all the trout recorded. The 
following list gives, in their order, the first fif¬ 
teen flies that have proved the best taking ones 
on Parmachenee Lake: 
9 Royal Coachman 
10 Queen of Waters 
11 Professor 
12 Black Dose 
13 Black Hackle 
14 White Miller 
15 Gray Hackle 
1 Parmachenee Belle 
2 Brown Hackle 
3 Silver Doctor 
4 Black Gnat 
5 Montreal 
6 Jock Scott 
7 Lord Baltimore 
8 Grizzly King 
To return to Kennebago Section; the dry flies, 
when fished as wet flies, that have proved most 
successful, are the 
Red Ant Greenwell’s Glory 
Hare’s Ear Pale Evening Dun 
March Brown Wickham’s Fancy 
Black Gnat Silver Sedge 
Coachman Hofland’s Fancy 
The dry fly when fished strictly as a dry fly 
has not as yet proved very successful, although 
it has been used to some extent for six or more 
years. Some trout have been caught on it, but 
the percentage is small as compared to the wet 
fly, and strange to say, more trout have been 
caught on the lakes with the dry fly than on 
the “dry fly water” of the streams. 
