St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-23
Good Outlook fer New England Fishing
During the Coming Season.

Refreshing, delightful, CHEEKY, and ever
welcome spring is at hand. The quiet
stiffness of the forest is broken by the
merry sounds Of the woodland songsters
and the soft murmur of the babbling
| brook as it winds its way toward the
ocean. These are the true harbingers of
the approaching season, and are eagerly
looked forward to each year by that
army OF sportsmen who proclaim "Izaak
Walton" as their king, and sale to say
there is no SECTION IN the country where
they can satisfy their appetite for good
fishing as well as in the confines OF old
New England The exodus toward
Maine has already commenced, for in all
this grand country, Maine, with it's
magnificent area of forest lands covered
with an intricate network of streams
and rivers and Astounding in lakes and
ponds, stands alone both in fishing and
hunting, and the supply may almost be
termed inexhaustible, tor the state looks
after these preserves in a faith ul and
efficient manner. They are continually
stocked with the choicest variety Of fish,
and are safely guarded during the close
season. When one considers that there
are over / 600 lakes and ponds and over
500 streams III the state of Maine where
| good fishing can be INDUCED in, including
the best specimens OF land locked salmon
and speCkled trout, and that according
to the naturalist the average trout will
lay from 500 to 1900 eggs in a single
season, then there is surely no danger OF
| a scarcity!
First comes Sebago Lake, situated in
the southern portion of Maine a few
miles from Portland, celebrated for it's
large land-locked salmon and trout.
Farther north one will find any number
OF lakes and ponds, all stocked with the
choicest of fish from the famous salmon
to the lesser varieties, including perch,
bass, pickerel, ETC., until he reaches the
lar-iamed Rangeley Region, which has
long been celebrated as a great game
territory, and the reputation of which as
a hunting ground is only equaled by the
remarkable fishing which can be obtain.
ed in the vast bodies of inland water
which cover this section. Farther north
is Moosehead, the pride ofNew Englands
lakes easily reached by the Boston &
Name Railroad and its connections, and
joining with chain of lakes and rivers
which are source OF divine Joy and
pleasure to the fisherman or canoeist.
Washington county has also become
prominent as a fishing region on &C.
count of its easy accessibility; and so
one might go on indefinitely mentioning
the different places so easily reached
within the borders OF the Pine Tree state,
not touching on the vast areas in the
Province of Quebec nor the unlimited
tracts of New Brunswick and Newfound-
land. Nor are these the only places
where success crown the fishing sport,
for only few hours ride from Boston is
the famous Lake Winnipesaukee in New
Hampshire, around whose shores in DAYS
gone by the red man was wont to hunt
and fish, also Lake Sunapee, which
nestles costly among the hills of South
east New Hampshire, and which needs
no description as resort for the vaca-
ZIONIST or fisherman. The large steamers
which sail over this lake afford a fine CD.
portunity for the sportsman to try his
hand without inconvenit nee, in any por-
ton OF the lake; also the innumerable
mountain streams and brooks, where
trout fishing is a sport coherent with the
spring life of the natives the same in
Vermont, where the waters Of the his
toric Champlain form delightful retreat
for the person DESTROYS of good sport,
coupled with an ideal camping ground;
and the quiet stiffness of the ever beauti.
full Menu hremagog, which extends into
the borders OF Canada, serves as an at.
traction tor the devotees of this sport,
and so on down to the old Bay State,
from whose western streams and lakes
trout, pickerel, bass, etc., are hooked
everyyea in large quantities.
Thus while the birds are gladly well
coming the advent of spring with their
merry voices, and the woodsman is pre-
pairing to again enter his forest home,
while the fish are trolicking in the pools
and streams after their long seasons i'm
prlsonment, the sportsman is not at all
idle he has cleaned and got in readiness
all his paraphernalia his camping outfit
is being patched and repaired, and the
faithful guide is anticipating a visit to
those familiar haunts and woods where
true enjoyment in the pursuit of natures
purest sport can be had.
Another week and the rush will be on
ample accommodations will be provided
for everyone then good luck and heavy
string to the sportsman for 1902.
The pamphlet called Fishing and
Hunting" published by the General Pas
senger Department, Boston & Maine
Railroad, Boston, describes the fishing
resorts in detail, and will be sent to any
address on recent of a two cent StarnD