Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-07-24

y eau oe saAcs soou strlnS OF pound trout
n and larger ones.
d A man by the name OF George Kendall
was fishing through the ice on c Pond,
one winter In the ''sixties," and ne noticed
bubbles kept coming up in the hole, and
: presently small black head made its APP
, pearance and popped down again. Soon
, after he felt sharp pull at his hook; he
pulled up with some difficulty, and q fine
mink was fairly caught. He took the line
In his left hand and the fishing stick In his
, right and hit the critter blow on the head
that laid him out. paid Mr.. Kendall i've
dollars for that mink.
Magalloway River empties into the An
droscoggin two miles below Umbagog
Lake. Three miles up this river are the
famous Pine Hill Springs Six miles up is
Bottle Brook, where there was few years
ago famous trouting point. Ten miles
up Is the mouth OF Diamond River, where
in August you could MI your creel forth
with; and one mile up the Diamond, at the
foot Of the falls, is where the big fish could
be seen from the shore in all their lowell
ness.
Following up the Magalloway for thirty
miles you come to Parmachene Lake, sew
en- miles long. In going up the river you
pass many brooks and ponds, where you
can shoot ducks, deer and moose, or take
| q days trouting with comfort and success.
Fred Flint has camps at AziscohoZ Falls,
and teams for the carry-two miles-and
boats above it. T. s. Flint has camps at
mouth Of the little Magalloway, three miles
below the lake, and pond preserve for
trout. On the lake John Danforth has his
famous floating hotel, camp on raft 10
accommodate sportsmen. Abundance OF
trout and shooting in and about Parma
chene, and as wild q country as a man
could desire.
forgot TO mention Sturtevant Pond,
seven miles up the Magalloway from its
mouth, favorite place not only for trout
but for bears. Here n. w. Bennett, while
tending his lines one cold morning, while
winter fiahing, found large otter firmly
hooked and dead on one of his lines. He
had swallowed the live bait.
Arourd Metallic Point on Lake Mole
chunkemunk Is continuous sand beach,
and some distance out from the shore the
shallow water makes suddenly OFF into
deep water, forming steep bank. Near
this bank for perhaps half mile around Is
good fishing ground, where trout congre-
gate and stay winter and summer. This
location being at the upper end OF the Mar
rows, connecting the north and south arms
Of the lake, where there Is supposed TO be
always more or less current, forms a nat
ural fishing point. 1t Is not generally
known TO the public or TO guides, but was
known TO the indians in old times, and
they made the most Of II, camping near It
and spending the summer there. / es-
teemed the above fishing ground one OF the
best on the lake.
A brook running by my house at Metal
ic Point was well filed with trout pretty
much through the season, especially after
the middle Of July. / recollect one time
In July or August / wanted boat in this
brook for some purpose, and asked my
wife to 90 down to the lake with me and
take one around Metallic Point up the
brook, which was about one-half mile. As
we proceeded up the brook we saw large
quantity of trout run by the boat at a GER
tain deep hole. helped my wife out on
one side OF the brook and hauled the boat
I'D on the other, and went a-hshing, for
we had prepared for such an occasion. In
less than half an hour we had ffty-two
beauties Of about one pound weight aver
age. Such q catch was not uncommon in
those times-in the fifties.
I remember taking a big catch in
Mosquito Brook one day the first week in
September, and on my return home found
party of anglers had come In. After
viewing my trout they could hardly wait
until the next morning for try at the same
place. had nearly flfty pounds. Mrs.
X. told them they could not find these
same trout there that day; and they did
not, for they got but small string. This
mistake Is often made, for We are all apt
to think because another has had luck In q
certain place that the same chance still
remains for others on the same spot.
East Of the Richardson Ponds, about
two miles up on the top Of large hill are
two ponds, which used to be we'll filed
with trout. The outlet rams under ground,
so suppose the trout were put in there
when the ponds were made. The first
time ever saw these ponds | was look
ing for trapping chances, and accidentally
came upon them with load Of traps on
nv back, after having been from home
about two weeks. caught winged bug
| on the bushes and baited hook and threw
| In, and soon had q two pound trout, and
found no difficulty in getting all the fish
I wanted. Some years after this took
party Of four gentlemen up there in Sep
TENDER for camp out carried small
rope with me to make raft with, as there
was no boat there.
Arriving at the pond, cut several big
logs the proper length and tied my rope
4 around the middle Of them, laid some cross
strips on and q few evergreen boughs, and
the thing was done. poled 1t down of
the outlet of the upper pond and anchored
NY four gentlemen then rugged their four
rods with two dies on each leader and
went at 1t, and in less than one half hour
they had fun enough, for they were strik.
In all directions, and at one time each and
every man Of them had two trout on their
lines, and they landed the eight fish with
out loss. The trout were about one
pound weight, and an exceedingly sweet
and delicious hsh. When I first moved
| into the lake country observed several of
the old camping places OF the aborigines
near good trouting grounds, and some OF
them burial places, and what appeared to
be grounds for dancing, parades and pow.
vows. At the point Of land between Cup
suptic Lake and Kennebago River below
Indian Rock, was 8 beautiful hard pine
grove, which was well SCARED up with
hieroglyphics, and between the trees hol-
low dents In the ground, which we sup
posed to be graves.
At Brandy Point, on Mooselucmaguntic,
were many proofs of their camping, as also
at Metallac point on Northumberland
Lake, wher Old Metallac lived many years,
and where his squaw died In the winter,
and he sewed her in q birch bark and
hung her up in limb OF q tree over the
smoke hole Of his camp to preserve
her until the ground opened In the spring.
At the door Of his camp was q large pile
Of dried bones thrown out rs he picked the
meat of Of wild animals; and beautiful
grove Of pines where the neighboring In
dams used to have their war dances. The
same conditions exist on Umbagog Lake
at the Narrows, near Pine Island.
All these places are famous trouting
| oronnds and thew are only few among