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Excerpt from A Big Game and Fishing Guide to Northeastern Maine: Guide to North-Eastern Maine There comes a time to the business man he can no longer stand the strain and heat of city life; when in fancy he sees the rippling waves on lakes and streams, and hearts the voices of the forest where nature is as wild and primitive as the aboriginal names of her leaf-fringed waters. To those who are anxiously puzzling their brains where to go to spend a few days hunting or fishing, this little book is, we trust, appropriately dedicated. To those who have visited the places it describes, no introduction is needed. It will remind them of happy days gone by. In compiling this work, we have striven to supply the hunter and fisherman with all the information necessary to ensure a pleasant and successful trip, and we have tried to omit no detail, either as regards grounds or sporting outfit. The fame of the hunting and fishing in Maine is known to all readers of sporting literature; but the grounds are so large and numerous that it becomes simply an impossibility, in our limited space, to do justice to even a small portion of those reached by the B. A. alone. The State of Maine is a very large territory, and with the vast number of lakes, ponds and streams, all comers can be accommodated without any crowding; in fact, it is doubtful whether the crack of a rifle is heard, or a line wet in one half of the waters of Maine from years end to years end. The principal game fish in the Maine waters are salmon, land-locked salmon or ouananiche, speckled or square-tailed trout, and togue or great lake trout. We devote a chapter to the game fish of Maine, where found, and how to catch them, with suggestions on tackle, etc. The salmon of the Penobscot, Aroostook and tributary waters are magnificent fighters, and compare favorably in this respect with their brethren in any part of the world; and remind the writer more of the sturdy Norwegian fish than of any others. They are especially strong and lively during the latter part of May and beginning of June. Next to the salmon comes his little cousin, the ouananiche. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.