The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-04

chnins none surpasseS Sebec in pic
turcsuue beauty and in variety OF
choice game fish. The main lake.
twelve miles in length from east tn
west and five miles wide. is set about
with high lands, AMI its upper waters
are framed, on the north and west, in
precipitous mountains, which. rolling
back northward peak above peak, are
overlooked by the great truncated
cone of katahdin. Al the east ana the
lakes outlet, Sebec river, pours
through canon TO join the Piscata-
uuis river. the Pcnobscot. and the sea.
Scattered like linked jewels through
the depressions of a vast mountain ana
forest area on the west and north
many tributary lakes, including the
Wilson, the Ship pond, and the Butter-
milk chains, empty into Sebec lake at
its head through the Wilson and the
ship pond streams, Among the many
smaller feeders of the great lake,
most Of them outlets to little lakes,
are Bennet and Bear brooks locally
famous the one for its pickercl and
the other for its specified trout.
The tiny village OF Sebec. at thl
outlet Crockett farm, and the spoo
mills Of Willnantic on the Wilson
summer cottages yelled in forest trees,
make little impression upon a scene of
otherwise unbroken wilderness. In
earliest days, when over these waters
the Taratne Indians padded from
point to point in their birch canoes in
quest of deer and fish, in later times,
when the pioneer white hunters and
trappers in search of game and pei
tries, made their camps about the
shores. and in the numbering and
farming epochs of the present century.
the advantages of the Sebcc region
have been appreciated Ivy those lovers
of wildwood sports VINO knew it. But
the great fame and popularity of the
Moosehead Lake region. with its facil-
tiles OF access and hotel accommoda-
ton. has drawn spVf.smen and tour
lists from the cities past Sebec lake,
and, except a few fortunate >portsmen
and scientists, il is only people born
and bred in the locality who realize
the surprising charm of its scenery
and the line fishing in it, waters,
No fish more beautiful. brave and
active exists than Sebec's favorite fish,
the landloclied salmon. the fresh
water variety Of sea salmon with
which, except in size and the fact that
it does not in the autumn descend 10
the ocean, it i practically identical.
The main lake -abounds in s,hclts,
V hich in the spring, immediately after
the ice goes ont. ascend in dense
schools the streams emptying INTO II.
After them dash the lauGlocked 81 lmon
gorgiT : themselves upon these fish.
their natural prey. After q few days
stay in the running water thew follow
the smells back into the lake. where
for the rest of the year, except spawn
ing time, they are found near the
Il hiding places of their victims, which,
winter and summer, seek the lowest
depths IRON the first Of June until
close time in October the salmon are
caught hy trolling, or by sinking with
a live minnow. not only in the main
AXE, hut in Ship pond Long pond and
the lower one of the five i:uttermilll
ponds. In other water sheets trlbu-
tary to Sebec lake they are not found,
impossible rapids having in all times
prevented their ascent from the main
lake. speckled trout are found