St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-09
A Trip TO the MagaIIOway.
ST. JoHNsBURY, Sept. ID, 1881

| fishing in Vermont has passed for this
year, perhaps some of your readers
would like to know where to go for
them where the law does not come in
force until the first of October, and
with your permission | will tell of that
excursion to the MagallOway river in
Maine made by Messrs. III. +. Randall,
Dan Grout, Geo. K. Crosby, Herbert j.
GoOdell, and myself.
On Monday morning, Aug. 18th, we
packed our baggage and provisions in
to covered wagon, this, with our
selves making a pretty good three
horse load, and started for that far fam
ed region, with high anticipations of
capturing large amount of fish with
out great deal of labor; but before
we got home we found out that there
was some labor to it. Our route was
through Concord, Lunenburg, Guild
hall, and up the Connecticut river to
Colebrook, n. H., thence through Dix
vile Notch to Enrol dam on the An
droscOggin liver, at which point we
expected to get boats and find trout,
but were disappointed in both respects.
Before we reached this point we were
well-nigh discouraged in regard to get
ting any trout at all, as various indi-
viduals whom we interviewed on the
way gave us very little encouragement.
But as we started for trout we were
bound to have them if possible, so we
took to team again and drove up the
Magalloway river fifteen miles to Mr..
S. ii. Flint's, near where the public
road ends, of whom one can procure
boats, guides, etc, as they may want.
This river is rather sluggish stream
up to this point where the first falls
are met with to interrupt boating, and
here are falls mile or more long and
formerly everything one took up the
river had to be carried on the back the
distance of two miles, but now there is
a rough road out through, so if you have
a strong carriage and steady horses
yOu can drive there. Here we pitched
our tent and made our headquarters
during our stay in the woods. These
falls are called the Aziscoos Falls and
are well worth visit, and in the
months of June and September, we were
told, many trout were taken there, but
we found it rather poor fishing at this
time. At this point there is house
now occupied by Mr.. F. F. Mason, an
/: experienced guide, and his wife, both
of whom we were under many obliga-
tions to for attentions shown us.
Usually the river above these falls is
, navigable with boats up to Parma
chenee lake, 25 miles, but this veal
q there are five miles of mill logs packed
0 in the river, one lot being about l.
. miles long, with a break of three miles
p and the remainder above that a dis
tance of eight miles by the river bu
as the river makes large bend herr
o one can get above all the logs by go
= Il
has to be carried on the back that i
got beyond them. The guides wh'
are taking parties across here abOu
= , every day load themselves with from
, 80 to 100 pounds of baggage and carr,
it across to boats above. This ha
/. been great annoyance to visitors ant
4 guides this year, and probably effort
B. will be made to have it different here
ID after. But Notwithstanding the effort
D. lake, ladies make the journey.
The next day, (Thursday) after W
b. arrived at the head of Aziscoos Fall
y !. we were pretty tired and took the da
h easily, fishing in the close vicinity, an
lg getting about Is pounds of trout. Fri
day morning we took an early star
er and worked our way up through tn
5, first lot of logs. This was done by on
r lying in the bow of the boat and wit
h, his hands, and sometimes his feet
It. parting the logs and drawing the boa
IS along after him, hard and slow pre-
"a cess, assure you. Arriving abOv
ID the logs we rowed up the stream abor
cd two miles to the mouth of brOol
ng where trout are found at this seasO
20, forgot to say we were out of Sc;
ed SOM, and there we struck the trout an
De. day of sport we had, our catch bein
&C: more than forty pounds there wei
also plenty of chubbs and suckers
vs., the river, which bite much more read
in ire ly than trout. Ones heart ceases
*, flutter pretty quick when he lands
It's, pound chubb or sucker instead of
pa trout he supposes is at the end of Il
ers line, and perhaps the language us,
on such occasions is not just what
for found in the ''revised edition." But t
days sport was a little dampened b
ePP55 fore we got home, as there was a hi
San shower all the while we were wOrkil
de our way back through the logs, and '
re- arrived at camp wet, tired and hungr
SEQ but after a good supper and nigh
. sleep on the boughs we came out
right in the morning.
er Saturday the party divided, part g
ing above all the logs, and part on t
grounds fished the day before, but
got only about twenty pounds of tro
81 that day. Sunday it rained hard
day, and as we could not procure bo;