The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-26
Mr.. Kinney Brings
Back Some Beauties
From Maine.
FISHING AT MOOSEHEAD LAKE.
Worcester Sportsman an
Authority on Where and
When to Get Them.

A. B. F. Kinney has returned from g
fishing trip of 10 days at Mooseheat
Lake, Me-. and tributary waters. A!
proof of his prowess with rod and reel
he brought home a score of speckleG
beauties which will be distributed tC
| friends.
Mr. Kinney hobnobbed with the bes
| of good luck during his stay at Green
vile, where was his headquarters. TC
The Spy man he said that he had OBJ
tanned all for which he made the trir
to the Pine Tree State-a rest, an idea
| outing and some fish.
Annually Mr.. Kinney has made the
| trip to Moosehead for "a consecutive
years, and he is thoroughly acquainted
with the lake besides the east branch
of the Penobscot and as far up as
Kineo. He reports the usual number oil
sportsmen on the Maine lakes and no
ticed an unusually large number OF
| ladies.
AS for fishing, Mr. Kinney says he had
| no difficulty in landing all the trout he
| cared to take. He roticed that the
majority of the sportsmen who were
about the lake were out with bait and
troll for all the fish they could get
and more than they lad any use for.
Mr.. Kinney declares he stuck to the
good old way and fished for sport most
ly with the fly
Mr.. Kinney is thoroughly acquainted
with the natives of that section OF
Maine, because of his many visits to the
place, and wherever he goes he is called
by name He is looked to as an author
ity on the habits of the fish in Moose
head and has made a study of where
and when to find them.
His lore of the big lake he learned
many years ago from Louis Annanan-
che, half-breed Indian who guided Mr..
Kinney score of years. The old man
is 95 years old now and is still active.
Peter Romeo, a Frenchman, who is
known to many sportsmen who fire.
quent the Moosehead rel ion, also gave
Mr. Kinney instruction in the lay of the
fish in the lake, with the result that in
that region he is consulted more often
than are the younger school of profess
ional guides.
Tyler Newton of this city, Mr. Kin
ney says, has fished with all these old
guides who formerly lived by the craft
and were on the lake 365 days a year.
A week ago Mr.. Kinney stuck hook
in his forefinger and had abundant
proof of the biting power of the modern
steel fishhook The barb entered within
bedded in the finger to the shank. After
the guide and the victim had exhausted
every available means to extract the
hook, including a few hacks at the
finger with a dull knife, it was found
necessary to seek medical aid and with
the injured member enclosing the
hook, Mr.. Kinney was padded four
miles from Sandy Bar to Greenville
After several hard and strong pulls
the hook was taken out and the finger
was left badly lacerated.
In the section visited, Mr.. Kinney
heard unanimous opinion that deer and
big game were never so plentiful as this
spring. The winter, it is said, was an
ideal one for game. There was an abun-
dance of snow, but throughout the win
ter it remained soft and a crust of the
kind that destroys and starves deer
| never formed. Guides and hotel men
are satisfied with the fishing business
which is considered practically closed
about July or shortly after, but are
looking forward to a record breaking
| season in TIE fall when the army of big
game hunters drop in with the rife to
supplant the less deadly fishing rod.