Keywords: Trout fishing
Item 57195
A few trout from Valley Brook, Strong, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Strong Media: Glass Negative
Item 150019
Leonard Small standing in a clearing holding a trout, ca. 1900
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: celluloid negative
Exhibit
Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891
"Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891 Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Description Camp on the "Mill Site" on a…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"… in Porter Lake are the landlocked salmon and lake trout, brook trout, rainbow smelt, smallmouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, chain pickerel…"
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
