Guide book to the Megantic, Spider, and upper Dead river regions of the province of Quebec and state of Maine .. . ole here is from where the brook emptying Crosby Pond enters, up to the nextcurve in the bog, where a beautiful cold stream-trickles in on the right hand side. This spot is aboutfifteen rods long, quite deep, and seems to have an inexhaustible supply of trout, running from one-halfto three-quarters of a pound, upon the average. The pool is fringed on both sides with lily-pads, and mustbe approached very cautiously with the canoe, in order to produce no commotion in the water, and
Guide book to the Megantic, Spider, and upper Dead river regions of the province of Quebec and state of Maine .. . ole here is from where the brook emptying Crosby Pond enters, up to the nextcurve in the bog, where a beautiful cold stream-trickles in on the right hand side. This spot is aboutfifteen rods long, quite deep, and seems to have an inexhaustible supply of trout, running from one-halfto three-quarters of a pound, upon the average. The pool is fringed on both sides with lily-pads, and mustbe approached very cautiously with the canoe, in order to produce no commotion in the water, and greatsport may be expected. The best trout fishing ever experienced bj^ the writer was in this pool, who was,presumably, the first to cast a fly on its waters. In writing a description of trout waters, one must becareful of the shoals of understatement, and more particularly the quagmire of exaggeration; butthe trout in this pool, nevertheless, are a marvel. I am quite clear of the quagmire when I say, inmaking a cast with three flies, a dozen fine trout would rise from all quarters, and turn somersaults over. BREAKFAST IN THE LEAN-TO (between Hathan Bog and Crosby Pond). the flies in their eagerness to bite, and, upon the first occasion of fishing iu this pool,! accomplished theremarkable feat of bringing to net at one cast, with three flies, four trout! The guide assisted me inlanding them; and the only way to explain the capture of the fourth trout was that it was scooped in bythe net in lauding the other three, although the smallest of the catch was over one-quarter of a last season, some fine strings of trout were caught in this pool. Captain Hiuman and myselfcaught in an evenings fishing one hundred and twelve trout, returning all to the water except twenty-two,which were over three-quarters of a pound each. Some of the catch can be seen in the illustrationon the opposite page. The record for trout fishing was broken in this pool last September, upon the occasi
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