

Jury 27,~ 1907, 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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catches and in fish in the pools and rifts. 
From the Natural Dam, on this stream, 
Edward B. Rice last season took a 6%-pound 
brown trout, 26 inches long. At this dam, and 
both above and below it, nice baskets of brook 
trout have been taken every season, and from 
pools here and there big farios have been 
landed. As the water is generally very clear, 
both species can be seen in these pools, and it 
seems they live together in peace, although, if 
any preference is noted, it 1s that the brown 
trout favor the deep pools, where, however, 
the water is very cold, while the brook trout 
are often found in shallower pools, in the 
rifts and at the mouths of small feeders of this 
rough and rapid stream. 
In the West Branch of the Broadhead, a 
smaller but very rapid stream, if anything more 
shaded than the East Branch, both species are 
taken at different places from Cave Pool down 
to Analomink and below. Brown trout seem 
to predominate there, and the largest fish have 
been taken at the toot of Henry’s Dam at 
Henryville. 
The record fish for the -vicinity—and it is 
claimed to be the record for western Pennsyl- 
vania—was taken by Charles N. Graves. It 
measured 27 inches and weighed 634 pounds. 
Our impression is that it was caught below 
Henry’s Dam, but we may be mistaken, as it 
is possible this fish came from the Natural 
Dam on the East Branch, where Mr. Rice got, 
his big trout. 
Any accusation that fario is a logy fellow is 
unjust, so far as the fish of this species in the 
cold water of the Broadhead are concerned. 
As punishment for those who hold this opin- 
ion, it is suggested that they be made to experi- 
ment on one of them ‘with a four-ounce rod 
and the finest drawn-gut leader. Surely they 
will take their medicine with good grace; but 
they will need all their skill to prevent disaster 
to their tackle. 
New England Angling and Anglers. 
,0STON, July 20.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Megantic Fish and Game Club has had 
many changes of membership during its life of 
twenty years. New blood constantly coming in 
has kept the club in a high state of efficiency, 
and its vast preserve in Maine and Quebec has 
never been in better condition than at the pres- 
ent time. The membership is limited to 250 and 
only lacks about twenty of being complete. 
During the last few months 45 new members 
have added their names to the rolls, and of 
course every man is anxious to go over the 
preserve. The club camps at Big Island, Cha:n 
of Ponds, Arnold and Spider Lake are all in 
fine condition, and are entertaining many visit- 
ing members. Since 1905 several cabins have 
been added to the equipment at each of these 
places, and in fact most of the “show spots” on 
the preserve have been found by individual 
members who have erected their own. camps. 
At Big Island Pond, Mr. Oscar S. Straus, of 
President Roosevelt's Cabinet, has a_ beautiful 
camp. Some of the other camp-owning mem- 
bers and their location are I. H. Page, at Chain 
of Ponds; W. R. Bateman of Quincy, John A. 
Amundson of New York, Clarkson Clothier of 
Philadelphia, all at Spider Lake; and David S. 
Draper, of Wilton, N. H.; D. D. Davis, New 
York, and T. F. Barney, of Medfield, Mass., 
all on Arnold Pond. In the last four years 
many thousand salmon fry and fingerlings have 
been placed in Big Island, Chain of Ponds, 
Arnold and other waters, and to-day this work 
is bearing fruit. Large salmon and trout are 
taken from Chain of Ponds and Arnold. Big 
Island has always furnished its quota of good- 
sized squaretails, while L Pond and Big North- 
west are always extremely reliable for small 
but hard-fighting trout. 
The entire region controlled by the club has 
always been a famous country for deer, and they 
are there now in seemingly greater numbers 
than ever. The present board of officers are 
active sportsmen, who keep right after matters 
that need attention, which largely accounts for 
the excellent conditions now prevailing. All 
complaints of returning members are promptly 
looked into. The President is George H. 
Payne, Boston; Vice-Presidents, W. L. Quimby, 
Boston, and Charles E. Curtis, New Haven; 
Clerk, Dr. George W. Way, Portland; Secre- 
tary and Assistant Clerk, Charles G. Wells, 
Boston; Treasurer, Parry C. Wiggin, Boston; 
Superintendent, Alvah A. Berry; Eustis, Me. 
Mr. C. W. Dunham, of Brattleboro, Vt., a 
member of the Laurentian Club, has just re- 
turned from a two-weeks’ trip to the preserve 
and reports most excellent fishing. This pre- 
serve is located in Quebec and furnishes some 
of the very best trout fishing *on the continent. 
The fish average large, and there are plenty of 
them. The country controlled by the club is 
about 100 miles in length and many miles in 
width. In addition to the known waters many 
new lakes have been discovered, practically all 
of which are found to contain trout, some over 
four pounds in weight. The club has several 
good headquarters camps, many shelter huts, 
-and as fast as practicable good trails are cut 
between all the best fishing waters. 
Mr. Ethelbert Nevin, of New York city, spent 

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a few days in Boston this week, outfitting for 

a camping and fishing trip into Maine. With a 
friend he will leave shortly for Blue Hill Falls, 
going into the woods from that point with 
guides to fish the eastern and southern waters 
of the State for trout and bass. The party will 
be away several weeks. 
C. H. Truesdale and wife, of Killingly, Conn., 
have just returned’ from a trip of three weeks’ 
duration to Marr’s Camps at Indian Pond, Me. 
This pond is a widening of the Kennebec River, 
a short distance below Moosehead, and the big 
trout for which the outlet is famous often find 
their way. down to Indian. High water made 
the fishing a litle uncertain, but at Big Indian 
Mr. Truesdale managed to land a few squaretails, 
some of wlhtich reached three pounds. It only 
takes a few of this size to satisfy any fair minded 
angler. 
Before leaving Boston for Newfoundland on 
Tuesday last, Mr. F. J. Daggett showed me a 
letter from Antonio Nardini, who has resided 
for many years at the mouth of Harry’s Brook, 
where is located one of the best salmon fishing 
pools on the island. Mr. Nardine stated that 
up to July 5 only one salmon had been taken 
at the pool. It very certain that the 
temperature outside has delayed the fish, and 
that they will be very late getting in the rivers. 
At Robinson’s a Mr. Baylies, by most per 
sistent fishing and with one of the best guides, 
has taken forty-one fish, none weighing over ten 
pounds. At the Little Codroy the salmon are 
seems 
just beginning to come in. The extremely 
heavy winds which have prevailed along the 
Newfoundland coast this season have almost 
stopped the netting at the mouths of the rivers, 
the result being that few fish have been’ mar 
keted up to this time. Mr. and Mrs. G. D, 
Bussey, of East Boston, accompanied the 
Daggets on their trip, and the party will prob- 
ably be away a month. 
Messrs. Charles H. Tyler and R. M. Sal- 
tonstall, of Boston, left for Montreal last week, 
where they will charter a sailing vessel and go 
to Labrador for the salmon fishing. They will 
try most of the rivers of the coast and will be 
gone one month. 
Mr. Chas. L. Purdy, writing from Grand 
Cascapedia, Quebec, to a friend in Boston, after 
saying that the Cascapedia is considered one of 
the finest rivers of Quebec, states that he 
very fortunately got permission to fish some of 
the waters, the owners—wealthy Americans— 
having left for home. The fishing is all done 
from canoes, only one person to a boat. The 
first day he caught sixteen trout which weighed 
24 pounds and a 21-pound salmon. It was very 
easy to get far more trout than one could take 
care of, but the excitement and pleasure of 
hooking and landing a salmon causes him to 
declare the trout a nuisance. Most of the large 
trout are through running, but he seldom 
hooked one under a pound and—as he expressed 
it—he caught lots of three and three and a hall 
pounds. Nuisance indeed and in fast water, too! 
HACKLE. 
Round Mountain Lake, Maine. 
Eustis, Maine, July 12—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Dr. C. B. Learoyd and R. S. Harvey, 
of Taunton, Mass.; Thos. R. Watson, of Ply- 
mouth, Mass.; Thos. H. Ratigan, Edward Bur- 
beck, of Boston; Theodore Brown and James 
Eddy, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y.; John Arthur 
Moir, of Boston; J. Everett Bird, of Wilton, 
Me., have been fishing Round Mountain Lake 
with good success, catching a good many, but 
no very large trout. Francis A. Niccolls, Jr., 
Benj. Dean, of Brookline, Mass.; J. H. D. Stone, 
of Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. A. Robinson and wife, 
of Somerville, Mass.; R. L. Ripley, of Hingham, 
Mass.; P. J. Baker and J. B. Sumner, of Boston, 
are here for the .month of July, fishing the 
streams and lake, catching all they want to eat. 
The prospects for good shooting this fall were 
never better. Young partridge are abundant; 
anywhere you go on the trails here there are 
ocks of them, and the deer are numerous. The 
management of this camp has built some small 
‘amps up in the mountains so that hunters can 
‘amp right in the best of hunting and so that 
rey will be better distributed, so there will be 
no danger of shooting each other. Near the 
main camps there is good deer hunting, but 
when a large number of hunters are in camp, 
they get too thick for comfort, although there 
has never been an accident here yet. 
A few hunters who make annual trips to this 
preserve always get their two bucks each and 
never shoot any does or fawns. This country 
was built on purpose for deer shooting. It ts 
nearly all open hard wood growth with plenty 
of ledges and bluffs to creep out on and look 
from. This is also a good bear country and we 
always have good luck on them when the beech 
nuts are thick, the last of September. When 
they find a place where the nuts are thick at 
first they will go into the trees after them, break 
ing off the branches in great shape. Then after 
the wind has blown down the nuts, they make 
the leaves and ground look as though hogs had 
been rooting there. These are the places to wait 
and watch for them. 
Considering every thing this is a very desir 
able place to go hunting, as the camps are warm 
and comfortable when the snow comes and are 
near the hunting. DO. B 
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