. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. ; 1 ' H<' H ik i ff'^' â ';i 1 1': I 1 ,f\.' -i I i i ifi^ n: ! i' 5|: IH' Tlf i â s ! 1 1 1 ' Â¥' "ill 356 Twitt-Fisliing in the Rangclcy (AMI' KKNNKHAOii. IBcforc clescribint( Camp Kcnnebago in detail, it may be as well to <rive in brief a sketch of the history of the Ocjuossoc .\nglinj4 Association, of which ortjanization this camp is the heatl-(iuarters. So lonij as thirty years a_i;o, a sportsman now and then worked


. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. ; 1 ' H<' H ik i ff'^' â ';i 1 1': I 1 ,f\.' -i I i i ifi^ n: ! i' 5|: IH' Tlf i â s ! 1 1 1 ' Â¥' "ill 356 Twitt-Fisliing in the Rangclcy (AMI' KKNNKHAOii. IBcforc clescribint( Camp Kcnnebago in detail, it may be as well to <rive in brief a sketch of the history of the Ocjuossoc .\nglinj4 Association, of which ortjanization this camp is the heatl-(iuarters. So lonij as thirty years a_i;o, a sportsman now and then worked his way throusj^h the wilderness to these lakes, l)iit it is only within the last twent)- years that the Ran^eley, Kennebago, and Cupsiip- tuc Lakes, with the upper end of Mooselucmaguntic, have jjecome at all well known to anglers. The Richardson LakesâWelokeneba- cook and Molechiinkemunk, with Umbagog, forming the lower lakes in the great chain whence the Androscoggin River derives its mighty powerâhave for the last thirty or forty years been fre- (juented by a score or more; of Boston and New York gentlemen. These sportsmen were invariably found at " Rich's," " Middle Dam," Mosquito Brook, or the " Upi)er ; Hundreds of spotted beauties, weighing from two to eight pounds, were captured by these anglers year after year, but they wisely kept their own coun- sel, and if an item occasionally found its way into the New \'ork or Boston papers chronicling the arrival of a six or eight pound speckled trout, those who claimed to be best informed dismissed the paragraph with a sneer at the ignorance of editors who did not know the differ- ence between brook-trout and "; In i860, Henry O. Stanley, I'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mayer,


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