The sun., 1916-12-24
SPORT AN
EXCELLENT TONIC
Will Take Years From the Age
Of an Individual-GO
Fishing.
4 VETERANS EXPERIENCE
~ EDWIN ". sANBORN.

the source Of the Connecticut
River. We c,mped at the lower end NJ
n stream. liked from hvc to six miles
up n logging road along the stream. cut
alder poles and waded down stream be-
tween the alder covered banks.
I often had to wade up TO the waist
n sometimes had to swim. I had no
waders or rub,rr clothes. our shoes
and clothes had TO be dried out when
we got back to the camp fire.
| remember my shoes getting burned
and cracked open the next day. ] had
to keep them together with n strip of
cotton borrowed from q secluded portion
Of my shirt. We stayed until funds
and angleworms were depleted.
From the foot OF the fifteen mile falls
We had to travel down The Connecticut
River on RATS. subsisting on immature
potatoes and corn borrowed from neigh
boring farmers. recall trying to Dor
.'ow some milk from a cow In the pas
ture and getting kicked in the stomach.
1t seemed good 10 have any sor; Of q
swelling there.
The idea IL to suggest how wildly We
recall the days OF real sport n how
fishing tackle tangles itself in the mem
ory. The songs of birds and the scent
Of flowers awaken old associations. but
tney nave hothlng on tne !lhe or stories
ana pictures tnst UNWIND themselves
from your favori'e reel az you bring II
out Tor winter contemplation. Ana mere
~ where mounted hsh come IT.
Illness = Piece Of LscL.
After those early experiences | had
TO do time in city offices. A little more
than a dozen years ago a piece Of luck
came along In .he shape of an illness
which offered an excuse for taking 10
the woods again.
one Of the first trips was to the Grand
Lake region In Maine. The friend who
was with me knew OF a place In Big
Dobsis Lake where speckled trout had n
hangout. This was near the shore, op-
positc the old shaw camps on Norway
Point a place where cold springs come
M at the bottom of a pool and among
large rocks.
My friend went on ahead. and when
ca me up ! found him gloatlng over the
finest string of trout I had ever seen.
half a dozen ranging from two 10 four
pouhas,
three good ones by casting tus, n. dusk
from a distanc. behind the rocks. one
WAS "A four pounder. The guide said.
.Why don't Won have i, mounted"
did so. and found tina. vas mounted
uys.lf-on a hobhy
ON another ,rin go, two ron, of tho
same class one from belgrade Lake and
ann,her from Pierce Pond had tho
,hroe hung I'm a rroun ON n birch b,rk
,,p., ,nd fn,ri n , - good ,s , ,l,rea
ynlun. record
hogan "a accumulate , library of
hooks from tho ruuuins brooks wen,
after ,ron, II, New prunswick Tbou
mn ,o tho I,ke :, .John country and go,
some ounnonische
f,urd ,h.,o w,s ,ood .rou, 6sbin.
h,ck f,on, ,ho rou,.s ~ tourists Thcr
hogan IN vorp y.s, ana tanned IN.
northern wIlaorre.s n, :, ,ton. no;u.s
north of tho r,Ilro,d lines ON n ,rir
,r,,n r,Lo Ta,,t,L ,,,t,. ,n h.yord
I,ka ,bI,ihh; I h,c,p. Interested I'm
Inrya ntln and w,ii ,y.d Nth,
Nro,b.r sc,.,, ,,, a,,.r h,ss In
,;.orr,,u R,v ana ia Iakcs IN ,h. north
Ano,hc, ycor found ,h,, ,ha sau,, SIC
Mario Is SIN n gnod ce,,,e ,nr s,or,s.
men
Took TIE" Trout Weixhtng .! Lbs
snen, FINN sc,.,,s g., the rou,h 70.
zion north ,f I,ks surerIor from, IN.
Tiniyon q, ths IaL. Of ,ho Moods
treat waters there Tor lake trout TooF
,h. \in,.n, l,, n.J. Tho ri.h.., NJ.
La.k IL, r.,,h.,,n ,,aL,o $50, -.
,.o
las, ,.ar so,,b, IN. ,c,u,in,,,c,
az tho vss,.,u bsh In Non,,na Id.I,
and Wvomin, Have also n.hed 4,
Nunneso,, Nis,,rsi, E,nria, ar1 ~,
Tho pn,fnr coas,
l., In. ,oll.c,I,u thor, RON m. .ho,,
n hundred snecimeps ranrason,Jn. sn,na