The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-23
FISHING AT GOGEBIC.
A Lake Where Fish Can Be Caught by the
Merest Tyro-Advantages of the Place.

Correspondence OF the Indianapolis Journal
LAKE GoGEBIc Mich, June, 1886.-This is the
season of the year when the angler wants to
ANGLE and the freemasonry that exists among
all guilds, and especially among fishermen, to
make known to the craft all good things and to
tell the truth (Grover Cleveland is a fisher
man, and always gives away good things, ex-
cept fat offices to hungry Democrats). impels
the writer to tell the truth about Gogebic For
several years the black-bass fisherman and the
trout fisherman have heard of Lake Gogebic as
the place where the fish almost waded out of
the water in search of the man with the hook.
This kind of story is as we'll authenticated
about Gogebic as about any other place, and
with more truth than poetry Generally the
place where one can always catch fish is, after
you have gone there, like the stories about the
location of milk sickness; the place is not where
you 60. but is over in the next county. Lake
Gogebic, however, is an exception to the rule,
and has more fishes in it than fishers on it.
The lake is situated in the extreme northwest
ern part of the northern peninsula of Michigan,
and is sixteen miles long, by vary
ing width of from two to four miles.
The water is cold and reasonably clear, and the
surroundings wild and primitive There is moth
ing attractive about the lake except the fishing
and the hotel. There is not day in the year
when line can be cast in the water, hole
cut in the ice over it, that fish, good fish, big
fish, and game fish, cannot be caught. The very
poorest sort of q fisherman ought to catch a
dozen day, and good fisherman or tisherwom-
an anywhere from that number to four or five
times rs many. The fish are all black bass and
brook trout: no pickerel, or dog fish, or any soft
fsh--all are solid, hard and full of fight.
The hotel proper has some forty rooms for
guests besides good parlors aid sitting rooms,
ali well ventilated, comfortably heated when it
is cold or damp, and mosquito tight. Fish never
bite in day time where there are mosquitoes at
night. There are belonging to the hotel. also, a
row of six fourroom cottages clean and carefully
kept with every provision for the comfort OF the
guests The hotel belongs to the railroad COM
pany,. land Mr.. Arnold, the lessee, is gentleman
in every sense of the word. Mr.. Thomas |. May,
formerly OF Indianapolis, and brother Of the late
Edwin May. the well known architect, is
manager, assisted by his wife, who takes
kind and especial charge of the lady guests.
This is one of the best features of the place:
that ladies can go there and be comfortably and
nicely entertained. After many years of travel
and experience in almost every State and Ter
ritory of America the writer will say that the
comfort of the guest is nowhere more carefully
thought of and provided for than at Gogebc.
The table is good. excellent bread. good meats,
good milk and butter. and fish galore good beds,
clean linen, plenty of soap, water and towels.
The way TO get TO GogeDlc is TO start from In
danapolis thence to Chicago: and thence by the
Northwestern railway to Milwaukee. there join
ing the Milwaukee, Lake Shore q Western rail
road These roads are thoroughly equipped,
and furnish cheap round trip tickets to any and
all points on the line. Through cars run from
Chicago on day and night trains, with good eat
ing stations. and good stopping places for those
who dessretto travel only by day. In the region
along the Milwaukee, Lake Shore % Western
railroad there are a dozen or more good places
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no extortion, frauds praeticed on the traveller,
no humbug.
There are Eagle river, Watersmeet, Pelican
lake and other places the line of this road
where, at little expense, good boats and guides
can be found for such desire to stop over and
fish or hunt. At one OF the other of these places
any sort of sportsman, pleasure or health seeker
can find what he may prefer-in the season good
deer-hunting or duck shooting. and every
variety of fish, Bass. trout and pickerel are
abundant and at Eagle river and Pelican lake
muskallonge weighing from ten to forty pounds
are caught For good fishing and a good time
try Lake Gogebic and the places along the line
of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western rail
road j. N.