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CASTING AROUND ; IN THE KENNEBAGO LAKE REGION, THE BROOKIES ARE ALWAYS BITING
2005
Overview
Among fly-fishers, the Kennebago region is legendary. Named for the \"sweet flowing waters\" by the Native American nations, it was a destination for early fishermen, who hiked in from Rangeley in search of brook trout weighing 6 to 8 pounds. A nine-hour hike brought them to a log cabin at the head of Kennebago Lake, where they slept on pine bough beds and captured brook trout larger than any on record. Sports editors insisted that the fish must be lake trout, or toque, and the confusion continued until a specimen delivered to Harvard professor Louis Agassiz proved the fish to be a true brookie. Afterward, the chance to angle for such an enormous trout proved irresistible. In 1913, a train brought \"sports\" from Oquossoc to the foot of the lake. Grant's Kennebago Camps, providing log cabins, three meals a day, and vintage Rangeley boats, was built in answer to the demand in 1905. For 10 years, my friends and I have traveled each spring to Oquossoc to spend a week casting over the Kennebago, the Little Kenne bago, and the Kennebago River. We have made short day trips to the Magalloway and Rapid rivers, both spectacular trout waters in their own right. President Eisenhower fished the Magalloway and President Hoover cast for brookies on Kennebago Lake. The Rapid River, setting for the memoir \"We Took To the Woods,\" by Louise Dickinson Rich (Down East, 1980), is a wide, handsome river, as wide and as versatile as the best Western rivers. Maine Turnpike to exit 11 (Gray). Go north on Route 26 through Poland Springs, Norway, and South Paris. At Bryant Pond, take Route 232 to Rumford Point. Bear left onto Route 2 and travel one-half mile, turning north on Route 5 to Andover. Follow the signs for South Arm. Telephone from Andover and the Lakewood Camps boat will be at the camps' private dock at South Arm to ferry you the 5 miles to Lakewood Camps.
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