Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-10
Maine Fish and Game Notes.

! over ton Of trout and salmon have
already gone up into the weirs at the
Lake Auburn hatchery and it is one OF
the sights of 4 lifetime
Coons are reported plenty in OXFORD
county. Preston Flint OF Albany. Will,
after his cow, found two coons in a tree.
and shot them both and sold them.
John II. Bonney of East Sumner. re-
Gently went oEt enc night and shot
four coons in a tree near the house. and
it wasn't much of night for coons,
either.
Ducks are plenty at Wolf pond, Wool
wich. and gunners are having great
sport a resident near says that not less
than 200 ducks have been shot there
this season.
Lcring and Judson Pettigrow. who
rank among the successful fishermen a.
Bucks Harder, one day recently caught
about 30 hogsheads of large. fat herr
ing in their weir at Towards Cove
Geo. f.. Hanscom of Machias. while
partridge hunting in vicinity of six
Mile lake, recently saw Il deer on the
run closely pursued by a wild or bob
cat, when he brought the cat Down
with Il charge of shot. lie was Il large
specimen of the feline species.
Added to the fact that game is not
over and above plentiful is another
fact that the rain is Swamps that
would remain possibly dry until Indian
summer is over, are now so full Of
water in many places that long rubber
boots are not always safeguard
against wet feet.
During the last days of the fishing
season at Swan lake. Scarsport this
fail, 40 trout were taken weighing 1855
pounds. an average of three pounds
The largest, weighing six and three
fourths pounds. was caught by H.
Maddocks, and the smallest. Weighing
onc-half pound. was caught by Frank
Il. Whitcomb Ir
There is no need of going into the
northern part of Maine for deer. saws
an Otis farmer Herbert Salisbury of
Otis, shot fine 200 pounds buck in his
orchard Tuesday. and bringing him to
8anSor received SIS for him Mr. Sauls-
bury says that deer are very plenty in
Otis, and the surrounding country.
That region used to be the hunting
ground for many sportsmen from Ellis
worth, Bangor. and even from Massa-
ciusetts, but since the b. & A rail-
read has been built. it has been little
visited, so that game has had a chance
to become quite plenty.
Among the hunters in northern Maine
at this time are many ladies and it is
certain that all the hunting laurels of
yp -,
men. 1t is not a rare thing nowadays
Tor woman to kill a moose and there
are many fine shots among the ladies.
One of the best of them is Mrs. S. II.
Watts of New York city who in company
with Mrs. G. a. Worth, is now at
Moosehead She handles her Winches
ter with the air an experienced guide.
ana when she draws u bead on ANYTHING
the bullet is not going far from that
SPOT. Last year she shot a bull moose
with 54-inch antlers and hopes to do as
we'll this year.
Bears have been slaughtering Mr.
Locke's sheep at Roxbury. He has
found wool and bones in the woods
but cannot tell how many are killed
But Mr.. Locke is willing to call it square
with Bruin. having killed a very fat
pear with a choice coat of fur. When
FOUND the bear. trap and clog were in
the top of a beech tree. He had broker
oif the top of the tree and wound tho
chain among the branches SO that no
could not get down if he wanted n
MI. Locke applied his axe to the traa
and soon had tree. bear and all on tha
ground. The bear was not hurt nv tho
,ah' and was lively on the ground. but
Mf, Locke soon finished him with n
bullet
hrs. /. d. Pulsifer and her two sons