The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24
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DEVELOPED Indicate that morn peuple are
going thete 10 arrhd thu out ~ doors
mont ha than ever hefore. Of courpe, thete
arc each year more persons 10 form tho
hulk ~ tho aummer rush, but Gloss ob'
sarvcra arr n tho opinion that this country
10 beginning 10 pause q trins 10 take ite
breath after tho phenomenal industrial
activity and tho rish and business hurry
hurly ~ the last ten years.
Not that tho activity Ia declining In the
least. hut that people ara beginning TO
think that they have more time for play
than they used 90 have. For this ever
increasing multitude New England fur
nishes an u~neaualled area for the spinning
Of vacation tops or the rolling OF the hoops
Of recreation,
Only those who have beer about q bit
way up in Maine have n really adequate
notion Of the size and possibilities OF tho
solitudes Of that great State. How many
folks know, for example, that It would
take half a dozen of Germany's far famed
Black Forest, the Black Forest OF romance
and mystery, to make up the area OF forest
and mountain in northern Mainel
Or how many would know, without
being told about 1t, that the single county
Of Aroostook, far on the northern border
OF the Pine Tree State, lie considerably
bigger than the entire State Of Connecticut
while Piscataquis county is larger h the
two States OF Delaware and Rhode Island
rolled into one?
All this vast area is open TO the hunter
and the fisherman from whatever State or
land he may come, and nowhere In America
is better sport to be found with the land
locked salmon, brook and lake trout, the
sporty black bass and the togue.
Names hunting and fishing have been
famous, and justly 80, for many years, and
the canoe has long been an indispensable
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OF late canoeing has moved up in the
list until now it occupies a prominent place
as a sport Ill by itself.
Last year many parties went up to Maine
for the avowed object Of taking al the
canoe trips they could crowd into a month
or six weeks. They didn't take along q
rifle or a fishing rod and they all reported
thatthey had had the time Of their lives.
Maine, indeed is the cancers paradise, for
the streams are many and we'll connected,
the carries for the most part short and good
and excellent guides numerous and not too
expensive.
In the country lying north Of Bangor, for
example, there are a dozen canoe trips Of
ell the way from n miles to 2S1 miles.
In most Of them the carries, what few
there are, do not exceed half a mile, and
nobody who has ever been through any
part of that Aroostook country will ever
forget its peace and its charm.
Fishing may be had by the way, II It Is
desired and nobody, however inexpert with
the rod. will have any difficulty in getting
what fish he needs to eat, thus tightening
the packs that must be carried.
One old hunter OF the Maine woods went
up to this Aroostook country last year and
did not take his rifle. 1t was summer when
he got there and not the hunting season
anyhow.
Things Of a business nature so arranged
themselves that he had to go in the summer
or not at all; but he got his hunting despite
the game laws-only 1t wa camera hunt
ing,
Before his six weeks stay was over he was
as enthusiastic over getting a good negative
of a bull moose at close quarters as ever he
had been in the past over coming home
with a bull moose's head and horns to show
his friends.
1T isn't 80 hard to kill a moose after
you've got within range Of him. he said;
'but to get a good snapshot Of him Is one
of the hardest things l ever tried to do. 1t
isn't so easy to aim a camera as to aim a
rifle"
For the sportsman fishing is Just now
the main attraction in the Maine woods.
And fishing there is almost everywhere
in Maine when out Of sight OF the principal
towns.
Sebago Lake is one OF the best salmon
waters in Maine and 1t is only seventeen miles
from Portland. Every year landlocked SAL
mon weighing from to Is pounds are caught
there and the sort Of hair raising fights
these big fellows can put up can only be
appreciated by one who has tried to catch
one-and failed. Long Lake, at Naples,
Is in the Sebago chain, connected with
Sebago by the famous Songo River. 1t
abounds in black bass and white perch,
while excellent trout streams empty their
cool waters into it.
Frequenters Of Great and Long ponds, at
Belgrade Lakes, Kennebeo county, declare
that the bass fishing to be had there can
not be beaten in the United States, and IL
is not yet too late to have good luck casting
the fly. After the first week in July better
luck is had with frog and bait fishing, while
in September the fly will again be found
useful.
Some big records have been made in
Long Pond, a party Of five men from Bos-
ton taking more than 800 bass in four
days On the fly. This was in 1908.
Up in the Rangeley Lake region you get
up to 1 800 feet above the sea level, about
the sources Of the great Androsooggln
RIVER, the ~lakesmaking a continuous chain
of-about fifty miles. The scenery is Of the
widest description n here, perhaps, the
trout fisherman finds sport as good as any to
be had in the State.
Private and public camps, ranging from
the plainest to the most costly, are many,
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