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PAGE I' \CE .'.\IAINE FISIIING: STHJ.,_\:\I FI Siil:-\(; . 10 On your own through the "big woods". . . WI IE .. Tl IE ''I CE GOES OCT" . 12 Community Camps where you "rough it in comfort" . 3 L \ \\'S .\:\D LICEi\SES: PHINCIPAL LAKE DISTRICTS: Inland Fish Laws . IJ Belgrade Lakes Region . Licenses . The Sebago, and Oxford County Region . Lega! Devices . The Rangeley s and the Dead Riuer Region ... r; Moosehead and the A Ilagash . 6 "\\'IIEHE TO S'L\Y I:\ .'.\L\I.:\E": Fish Rioer Chain of Lakes . r; Other Booklets and Information on Maine .. Grand Lakes Region pf tf7ashington County. 7 F1\YOH1TE BAITS, FLIE~ A.'!) UTHI'..~ F()I{ :\IAP OF TIIE STATE OF ;.\!JAINE.... . :i\IAL TE W.\TEHS...... !lo!~4-\ FISHING

IIETIIER you enjoy the gentle art of angling or feeding trout, the "spank" of beaver tail, while through the just like to catch fish as a diversion and incident darkening tree-tops big stars kindle-that's Maine's "big Wto a canoe trip, a vacation at a lakeside farm or woods." in the friendly wilderness-a vacation in old The fire crackles, the coffee pot bubbles over, bacon clothes and wading boots, or in full regalia with all the sizzles, trout hiss as they strike the hot spider. Afterwards appointments of fishing de luxe, Maine is the place for you. a quiet pipe and a long night of refreshing sleep under Pick your lakes and streams correctly and you can have blankets. Your competent, hard working, good natured, any kind of fishing you like-trout fishing, bass fishing, real backwoodsman guide is companion and mentor. That battles with the game ouananiche (pronounced wan-an• kind of "big woods" vacation sends you home tingling nish) celebrated in Henry Van Dyke's angling classic with vitality, rejuvenated, re-created, happy-fit to fight "Fisherman's Luck," the far-plunging Salmo Sebago-the your weight in wildcats. landlocked salmon of Maine-square tails, togue, brown trout, golden trout, the voracious pickerel, perch and that Community Camps where you "rough it in comfort" ilavorous member of the catfish family, the hornpout. ESS strenuous, but equally delightful, is a stay at one There are millions of chubs and the lesser varieties for the L of the completely equipped community camps which kids to play with. neighbor some of the best fishing waters in America. For royal sport and health-building recreation, tread the Deep in the forest, you enjoy every comfort and are free forest ways of Maine that Theodore Roosevelt loved. Whip from housekeeping cares. the pools where Grover Cleveland and Joe Jefferson cast The central dining room provides meals that do not need their feathered lures. Know the peace of quiet places that the tonic air of Maine to make them appetizing. This makes contentment your comrade. dining hall is a social center for bridge and dancing, for loafing and friendly chats, where you get acquainted. On your own through the "big woods" You live in log cabin camps with two to four sleeping ITII rod and pack and paddle, over wilderness lakes rooms, a cosy living room with an open fire place, many of Wand streams, through the springy brown carpeted them with a completely equipped bathroom, a little ve• woods of spruce and pine and fir, where is heard the randa porch, even electric lights. eerie cry of the loon, the buck's whistle, the plaintive call For people somewhat unacquainted with woods life, of the whippoorwill sounding curfew, the splash of night- those who have only a couple of weeks vacation, folks who [ 3 ] 4 Maine Fishing wish the privacy of family life without housekeeping cares, as hard as you like or enjoy the most delectable loaf. these community camps in the Maine woods are ideal. These woodland camps are legion. They arc found in all Your vacation is care-free and complete. You may play the lake regions of Maine that arc famous for fishing.

Gmnd Lake Stream · the h ard fighting (Lu an an iclie Salmon is taken in these o uick tr aters, Maine's Principal Fishing Regions AINE'S lakes = streams in th_e ?ifferen~ parts Piscataquis County, Damariscotta Pond in Lincoln County of the state constitute several distinct regions of and Meddybemps Lake in Washington County, famous for M large extent, where the conditions vary widely. its small mouthed black bass, where Grover Cleveland and Without attempting to narrowly define and Joseph Jefferson enjoyed rest, recreation and keen sport. limil the boundaries of each section they may be listed as But the Belgrade Region has for many years been head• the Sebago, Long Lake and Oxford County Regions in quarters for bass fishing in Maine. The angler who de• soulhwestern Maine; the Rangeley Region and the Dead mands action, who already appreciates or wants a demon• River Region in northwestern Maine; the Belgrade Lakes stration of the fighting qualities of black bass, should fish Hegion in Cenlral Maine; the Moosehead Region of North Belgrade waters. In recent years square tail trout fishing Cenlral Maine with the Allegash Region extending to the in the Belgrade Lakes has come into great favor and rivals Canadian border; the Fish River Region with i ls chain of the Rangeleys since the introduction of salmon into those lakes in northeastern Maine; the Grand Lake Region of waters. southeastern Maine. To these might be added the Schoodic Grand Lakes bordering the state belween the Fish River The Sebago Region Region and lhe Grand Lake Region. HE Sebago region of southwestern Maine has been A glance al the map of Maine, with its twenty-five hun• Tfamous for generations. It includes meadow streams dred lakes and ponds and its five lhousand rivers and where trout fishing is excellent together with larger slreams indicates clearly that these divisions only roughly streams and ponds that yield bass, pickerel and perch. define some of the beller known and more important of The famous Sebago salmon are a species of game fish Maine's fishing walers. Much of the central, northern and originally native to Sebago. Far-plunging, lively, power• eastern part of the stale is an angler's paradise. ful, they afford the finest of sport early in spring when they Ils seacoasl also affords the salt water fisherman the are close to the shore and rush at smelt and spinners. Later, finest of sport, ranging from cunner, pollock and tomcod as insects hatch, they offer opportunity for fly fishing. fishing off the rocks to deep sea fishing for cod and haddock, Still later in the season, in the deep, cold water, spinners and slrenuous battles with dogfish, horsemackerel or tuna, and smelt once more become most effective. fly fishing for pollock, casting for mackerel and boltom fishing for flounders. For hotels, camps and farm homes where accommoda• Lions can be secured al from Iil Leen dollars a week and up• ward consult booklet "Where to Stay in Maine."

Belgrade Lakes Region OR anglers who consider the small mouthed black bass F the supreme fighter of all the finny tribe, the Belgrade Lakes Hegion invites attention. As a matter of facl, black bass are found in a great many Jakes and ponds in every county in Maine soulh of a line drawn Irom Bethel on Lhe wesl lo Houlton on the east. These include the Belgrade Chain in Kennebec County, Pcnnessewassce Lake, Long Lake and I Iighland Lake, the lakes around Waterford in Oxford County, Big and Little Sebago Lakes, in Cumberland County, and Kezar Lakes in Oxford County, Long Pond or Crescent Lake at Wesl Parsonsfield in York County, Sebec Lake in Big Fellows, test your Angler Skill [ 5 ] 6 Maine Fishing

Trout rise to flies in the brooks that thread this country The Rangeley Lakes and the Dead River Region of low hills and woods most of the season, though fly fishing is least productive in August. Many of the streams which NO fishing waters in ~meric~ are better known than the flow into and other lakes stocked by the Rangeley Lakes with their long, tongue-twisting In• State are closed to fishing. The State Fish and Game laws dian names. Year after year thousands of sportsmen should be consulted. eagerly await the announcement that the ice is out of the The Sebago Region includes the longest settlc.l section of Rangeleys. Maine but judicious protection and stocking of these waters The Rangeleys first won fame for the size and fighting has kept fishing good throughout much of this region. qualily of their trout. But since salmon were introduced there, some thirty or forly years ago, their numbers have increased so rapidly that today more salmon than troul arc taken from the Rangcleys. The fishing season in the Rangeley district is from the Lime the ice goes out in the spring-generally a few days to two weeks later than the opening of the Sebago fishing season-until September 30th. During this time fly fishing, also trolling with live and artificial bails, tempt speckled beauties to trials of skill and cunning that warm the angler's heart. Plug or sl.ill fishing is forbidden by law.

The :\1oosehead and the Allegash Region IIE Mooschcad and the Allcgash Region is largely a T primeval wilderness of lakes and slreams and mighty forests. Spring comes a little later than in south and western Maine. Troul of many kinds, square tails, toguc, brown trout and land-locked salmon provide the sportiest of fishing. Moosehcad is the queen of Maine's waters, the larges l lake lying wholly in one slate. Ils cold, clear depths are cruised by big fellows that put the angler and his tackle lo a hard lest. The famous canoe trips clown the Allcgash lo the St. John's River or down the West Branch Lo Norcross have been a wilderness classic Ioi half a century.

Fish River Region ESS well known than some of other Maine waters, the L Fish River chain of Jakes provides as fine sport and as hard-Iigh Ling fish as you can find anywhere. Spring comes a lilllc lat and the cool, clear, spring-fed, lakes and fast-flowing streams of this region afford wond rf ul fly fishing even in ugust. Salmon, trou l and Logue of large size reward th angler White Water where Fish are Fighters "ho whips the waters of the Fish River Hegion. M a in e Fishing 7

Grand Lake Region of Washington County sea-salmon at the pool in the Penobscot River at Bangor, in the St. Croix River at Calais and in the Dennysville F all game fish, the ouananiche has the reputation of Pool. For years it has been an established custom to send being the most dynamic, the hardest fighter, size con• 0 the first Penobscot River salmon taken in the Bangor pool sidered, that ever rises to a fly. This quick-water• to the President of the United States. These lordly fish loving salmon is taken in the waters of Grand Lake Stream weigh from 18 to 30 pounds. and Grand Lake. Big speckled trout and togue are other members of the finny tribe that make fishing in these Round about Bangor waters a never-to-be-forgotten pleasure. IGHT within the city limits of Bangor is the world• R famous Bangor Salmon Pool in the Penobscot River, Other Fishing Waters where big sea salmon are landed. In the lakes around ESIDES the lake systems which have been roughly in• Bangor-dozens of them within a distance of a few miles• B dicated, there are in Maine's 2465 lakes and ponds there is good fishing for land-locked salmon, trout, togue, which show on the map as well as many others not bass, pickerel and perch, and even more numerous than the shown; smaller systems and regions and places that provide lakes are dozen of trout brooks. Bass fishing is extraordi• unexcelled fishing. The first fly fishing in the spring is for narily good in many of the waters in the Bangor territory.

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"GOOD stream fishing cannot be found in all parts "At Hound Mountain Lake in the Dead River Region of Maine for the reason that many streams are there is very fair stream fishing in Alder stream and always closed because the lakes which they enter arc good fly fishing on Round Mountain Lake Lhroughout the stocked by the state. season. "One of the best streams in the State is Sourdnahunk Stream, which is in the Mt. Katahdin counLry and is de• scribed in the booklet 'In the Maine Woods' published by the Bangor & Aroostook R. R. You can get this stream fishing by stopping in the camps on Sourdnahunk Lake, Kidney Pond or Daicey Pond. "Another place where you would get good stream fishing is at the Katahdin Lake Camps, run by Mr. R. E. Dorr of Millinocket, Maine, as there arc good streams within Lhrcc miles of the camps, one of which is 2.) miles of quick water and is free from brush. "In Munsungun and Mooseleuk Streams, tributaries of Aroostook River which flows through the town of Masardis in northern Aroostook County, there arc splendid riffs and pools where the trout hide. "A few miles farther north in the Fish Hiver Country there arc said to be more miles of perfect Lrout waters available lo the fisherman and more fish to lhc mile than in any other section of Maine. This country is described in the booklet 'In the Maine Woods.' "There is good stream fishing in Lhc vicinity of Topsfield which is reached from Forest Station on Lhc Maine Central R. H., and there arc camps on Musquash Lake. There arc several good trouL streams in eastern I Iancock and upper Washingt ou Counlies reached from the 'Air Linc' high• way running from Lincoln lo Topsfield. AL Tunk Stream in East Sullivan arc several good brooks nearby. There arc camps on Tunk Pond. "The Jackman section, with camps at Lake Parlin, Woods Pond, IIeald Pond, Crocker Pond and other ponds in the vicinity of Jackman, offers more or less good stream fishing. "Penobscot Lake north of Jackman, buL reached through Rockwood, the railroad station being Kinco Station, empties into the South Branch of the Penobscot River which is good trout waters. Wher« Salmon and Trout Run Hig [ 10 ] Maine Fishing 11

"Kennebago Stream in Franklin County may be fished Along this stream are many points of historic interest. The with a fly only from the Big Falls so called, to Indian Rock scenery is inspiring, especially that portion of the river from dawn until darkness sets in, and only one fish a day below Calais where it begins to widen out. The banks are may be killed. That is enough for any man as the salmon high and rocky, forming retaining walls for fine stretches and trout run to three, four, five and an occasional six of wild country. pounds. "Fishing for the great sea salmon of the St. Croix River "Little Kennebago Stream may also be so fished and five is exciting sport. The salmon of the St. Croix River are fish may be killed per day-they run smaller in this stream. conceded to be superlative for their beauty and their game "Cupsuptic Stream, north of Cupsuptic Lake of the qualities. They weigh from eight to twenty-five pounds Rangeley Chain, may be fished from the pier at the mouth and even thirty pounds. The pool at Calais is, without to Big Falls June 15 to Sept. 30 with artificial fly only. doubt, the best in Maine. The fish rise to flies cast from Not more than three pounds of fish nor more than five the banks, so that it is not necessary to use boats. They fish may be killed in any one day. begin to run early in the spring and may be caught until "The Magalloway River on the extreme western border the latter part of July, though toward the end of the season of Lhe slale offers splendid stream fishing above the lake they are neither so plentiful nor so gamey." by wading afler the ice goes out in the spring and until aboul the middle of June when the trout work down into the lake around the mouths of brooks, and one casts from a canoe. There is good fishing throughout the summer in the pools on Big and Little Magalloway. "Twcn Ly years ago I used to regularly fish Grand Lake Stream, Lhe outlet of Grand Lake in Washington County, but the fishing fell off after a big concrete dam with a screen was built at the foot of the lake; thus preventing the salmon from going down inlo the stream. "It is hard to tell where the 'Best' fishing of this sort can be obtained in Maine as each place offers its individual allractions and the best thing lo do is to look over the booklets of some of the camps and then make a check-up by writing for further information. "The best fishing is in May, June and September. June is also the season when the black fly is most prevalent in the woods. That is the reason I go in September. In July and August because the waters are warm the fishing is not so good but there are certain northern lakes where you get very good fishing even during those two months. "There arc numerous outlying lakes, ponds and streams in which there is excellent trout fishing, and a special feature is the opportunities offered during the summer for Dy-fishing. "SL. Croix Hiver, which issues from the southwestern end of upper Schoodic Grand Lake, forming the boundary be• t ween Maine and New Brunswick, affords splendid fishing. Victory in Sight When the "Ice Goes out"

IIE carlicsl fresh waler fishing in Mai:rc is in Sebago A few days after the ice goes oul of Sebago Lake, it dis• Lake, in the soulhern part of the Slate in Cumber• appears from the more norlhern lakes of lhe same chain, T land County, 16 miles from the city of Porlland, or region, Long Lake, IIighland Lake, Woods Pond, Moose that being the first lake that clears, or in olhcr Pond, Kezar Lake and others. words, from which the ice "goes out." The lakes in the Belgrade chain clear a few days af ler While on this subject, it may be interesting to explain those in the Sebago region and lhose in the Rangeley and just how lhe ice does "go out." The general impression is Moosehead country two or three weeks later than Sebago. that it breaks up and floats down the slreams which are the Grand Lake waters in eastern Maine clear about a week outlets of the lakes. This supposition is a fallacy. or ten days laler Lhan in the Sebago region. Under the heat of the spring sun and the warm rains, the The early fishing in these waters is for salmon and lroul ice which has bound the lake during the Winter, begins lo which are taken on artificial bait, such as quill bait, red slowly disintegrate, and this process keeps up until it is fish made of celluloid, wag tails, or live smell on a spinner nothing more than millions of suspended icicles which are or threaded on to a single hook. Afler the firsl few weeks held together al one or two poinls only. The surface of the a trolling fly baited with worms is effective. Details of lake is like a honeycomb. Gradually open waler spaces of bails and lures is given elsewhere. a small degree appear at various places, and the shifling For the first week or ten days, fishing is moslly by troll• winds move the body of ice in and out of these open places ing, as fly fishing docs not usually commence unlit the and to and from the shore so that it is gradually furlher waler has been warmed by th sun so that the fish arc disintegrated. This action, however, does nol accomplish working to the surface to gel lhe bugs and other insects ils purpose to any great exlent. Only a heavy wind (which which come up from their breeding places in the bollom of usually comes from the norlhwesl) moving the ice from lhe the lake or have dropped or been blown from lhc trees and north and west shore of the lake can do this. bushes that line lhe shore. As open waler appears in various places in the ice, the This rule applies to pracli ally all fresh waler lakes in wind gels a sweep under the ice and causes it to ripple like which salmon and trout arc found. the waves on the pond, bul, of course, in much lesser de• Bass fishing by trolling is nol lawful un Lil the 20th clay gree. It, however, serves ils purpose, lo rub the icicles of June, though bass so caught, while lawfully trolling for together and, as they are very thin, porous and honey• salmon or lroul may be lawfully kcpl, bul cxcep l.ions lo the combed by the work of the sun and rain, they very quickly general laws should be studied. grind up. This disintegrated ice piles up on the caslcrn and During July and ugust, because of warm weather, fresh southern shore into great windrows, and this process of wat r fishing is the poorest, and in some '' atcrs the only grinding is whal makes the ice disappear and clears the way they can be caught is by still or "plug" fishing, which lake. In reality, the ice docs nol "go out" but merely is nol legal in the Rangeley Lakes and certain olher waters, grinds up, melts and disappears. particular· of which arc given els .whcrc. The writer has slood on the shores of many a lake and In some of the more north .rn lakes like Tim Pond and watched lhis disappearance, which lakes place so rapidly Kenn Lago in Franklin County, the Sourdnahunk region that it seems as if you could sec the ice moving down the in Piscataquis County, the Fish Hivcr system in Aroostook lake. A large body of waler, under a heavy wind, clears County and other lakes wh i .h ar · entirely spring f .d, so in a few hours, and whal was the day before a field of ice, that the waters are cool, fly fishing is atisfuctory wen is now a sweep of sparkling blue waler, in which the fish, through July and August. IL is quite apl lo he Lh<' ml· because of their long fast since spawning time in the fall, that on such wal rs, particularly in I< ranklin and Pi cala• are ready to take the lures that are oITered. quis ounties the law allows fly fishing only. [ 12 J Maine Fishing 13

Lovers of tlze Open delight in Maine's Offering Laws and Licenses

Inland Fishing Laws Black Bass and While Perch: Open season on black bass 0:- lakes and ponds on s~lm~n, l.andloc. ked salmon, and white perch in lakes and ponds governed by general trout and Logue from Lime Ice IS out of waters in law from June 20th to September 30th, inclusive: in rivers, spring unLil September 30th, inclusive: in rivers brooks and streams from June 20th to September 11th, 0 inclusive. from time ice is ouL unLil September 14th inclusive. Open season on lrou L and salmon in brooks and streams of State governed by general law, from time ice is out until Special laws apply to Sebago Lake, Long and Thompson Aug. l:>Lh, following. (Important streams on which there Ponds, Upper and Lower Kezar Ponds, Lovewell's Pond, arc special laws arc excepted in this new general law-sec Moosehead Lake and other important waters. (Consult law book for full text of these exceptions.) law book.) 14 Maine Fishing

Fishing Licenses build fires if they are engaged in hunting or fishing, unless in charge of a licensed registered guide. RESIDE::\'T of the State of Maine is obliged to take These regulations as interpreted by the officials of the A out a fishing and hunting license, which cosls 25c and Fish and Game Department arc as follows: is obtained from the Town Clerk in the place of legal "If a non-resident is simply on a camping, motor or residence. This license does not have lo be taken out each canoe trip in unorganized townships, docs not hunt or fish, year but is good so long as licensee remains a residcn l of has no firearms or fishing Lackie in his possession in the Maine or until canceled for cause as provided by law. fields or forests, or on the waters of the State, he is nol A non-resident, sixteen years of age or older, is required required to employ a guide. In other words, if motorists to take out a fishing license cosling S3.13 and a new one do not hunt or fish and have no firearms or fishing tackle must be taken out each year. These licenses arc on sale al with them, so far as the game laws arc concerned, they can most of the camps and hotels, at many sparling goods camp without a guide." stores, by Game \Yardens, many Town Clerks and other The unincorporated or unorganized townships or so• officials, and at the Slate of Maine Publicity Bureau, called "wild-lands" territory is, broadly speaking, that Longfellow Square, Portland, Me. They can be sent by section of the State of Maine north of a line drawn from mail on receipt of price and the following information: Bethel on the west to :\-Ialla\Yamkcag and Houlton on the Age. . . . . Ilcight. . . . . Weight. . . . . Complexion . east with the exception of Penobscot County in the vi• Color IIair. . . . . Color Eyes. . . . . and Nationality . cinity of Patten; Aroostook County in the vicinity of Houlton; northern and eastern Arooslook County along and must be signed by the licensee before it is effective. the :\cw Brunswick border and in the vicinity of Fort ~on-residents cannot build camp fires on a fishing trip I< airfield, Caribou, Presque Isle, Ash land, Yan Buren and in unorganized townships unless they are in the charge Fort Kent; Piscataquis County in the vicinity of Dover• of a registered guide. Foxcroft and Greenville. The greater part of Washinglon County is unorganized territory, with the exception of Legal Devicesfor Fishing in Inland Waters coast towns in the vicinity of Cherryfield, Machias and Eastport, and border towns in the vicinity of Perry, Calais I~GLE baite? l~oo~ and line, artificial flies, a~tificial and Princeton. There is also some unorganized territory minnows, artificial insects, spoon hooks and spmners, S in the eastern part of Hancock County. so-called; set lines can be used only while fishing These unorganized townships are moslly in that part of through the ice. Two lines only can be used by one person the State where lumbering operations are carried on and in summer fishing. the law referred to above has been made for protection By the State laws, non-residents cannot enter upon un• incorporated townships or the so-called "wild lands" and against the menace of forest fires. "Where to Stay in Maine" Other Books and Information on Maine IIE booklet "Where to Stay in \1ainc" is a prac- l 1 t r t f h t I f d Inquire as to the new, speedy: con~forl~ble transportation service tical y comp c e 15 o o c s, camps, arm an to all points in the Stale of Maine via rat! or boat. Ask for _tl1es.~ T other board places al Maine resorts on the seacoast booklets and maps: "Mainc-s-the Land of Hcmcmbcrccl Vacations, and inland. It lists hotels, sporting camps, com- "Opportunities in Maine" (i_n:orn:iation. 01~, .\~aine m'.1~s ar'.cl :ig~i- munity camps, farms, boarding houses, boys' and girls' culture), "Farming Opporluml1es in .Mam~ (list of ~laine farms ·~ camps, golf courses, distances from Portland, on which attractive locations), "Forest Trees of .\lame," ":\lame by l\lolor, "Maine Fishing." .'.\lap-".\1aine Auto Houtes," .:\1ap-"Through railroad the places are located and how reached, rates per Auto Routes," "Maine Invites You," "Where to Stay in Maine" day, week and season. A copy will be sent free on request (Published by Stale of Maine Publicity Bureau, Portland). to State of l\1aine Publicity Bureau, Portland, Maine. Gladly and freely supplied upon request to INFORMATION BUREAU, Secretary of the State of Maine Augusta, Maine Maine Fishing 15 Favorite Baits, Flies, and Lures for Maine Waters

Smell on Single IIooks Salmon Archer Spinners with smelt Stream Fishing For early fishing as soon as the ice Cupsuptic Baits with smelt Flies as per above list, also besl leaves and for the following week Phanloms patterns of Dry Flies or two Rangeley Spinners with smell Small Gold Spinners with worms Nalure Baits Trout Tacoma Baits Pearl Spoons with worms Emeric Spinners Denver Spinners Salmon Flies Maine Lake Trolling Flies Lake Trolling These flies have a long shank hook Parrnachenee Belle Bass Willow Leaf Black Bass and a bunch of worms is used Silver Doctor Fluted Baits Pork Rind Bails with the fly Durham Ranger Any of the common Gold Bowl Wilder Dilo Lures They are fished as wet flies; no bail, Jock Scott trolling Spoons when fly fishing only is permitted Dusty Miller Thunder & Lightning Bass Flies Black Gnat Montreal Mitchell Brown Hackle Parmanhenee Belle Coachman Professor Col. Fuller Silver Doctor Grizzly King White Miller Ibis Yellow May Cupsuplic Bails with worms Lord Baltimore Salmon Baits Rangeley Spinners with worms For later fishing Other similar bait which law permits Bass Bait Casting with Live Bait Such as shiners, helgramites, frogs, lizards, etc., and with artificial baits Pickerel Almost any legal spinner or bait with red in Smell on Single Hook it will attract the voracious pickerel. Trout Baits Archer Spinner Baits should have short wire leader. Cupsuptic Baits with worms White Perch Any of the smaller spinners such as: !f~~;ta~l~~~~~orms more readily Phantoms Roman Spinners Emeric Spinners than salmon Rangeley Spinner .with worms Denver Spinners Pearl Spinners Tacoma Bits used with worms

Maine Lake Trolling Flies-used as The above baits and flies are standard for any of Maine's Trout Flies for Salmon inland waters. In each locality however there is some Most common pallerns Buck tail Montreal White Tip special bait which is thought to be better than any other. Black Gnat Parmachenee Belle Brown Hackle Professor Information regarding them may best be obtained of local Coachman Queen of Waters guides, camp or hotel proprietors, and sporting goods G~;t~uRfiller ~i~h;1 ~~~Jhman dealers. Grizzly King Silver Doclor I Jares Ear Seth Green We suggest that instead of stocking up at out of state Ibis White Miller stores that you wait until arrival at Maine stores or at Jessabo Wickhams Fancy .Jock Scott Yellow May fishing grounds and purchase of local dealers or camp pro• Jungle Cock Welch Rarebit King of Waters While Streamer prietors. It is advisable when making mail bookings at Lester Brown Streamer Montreal Yellow Streamer hotel and camp to inquire if fishing tackle can be purchased Also some patterns of Ory Flies locally.

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