New Hampshire Trout Streams: Berlin Falls
I have just returned from a two weeks’ outing at and in the vicinity of Berlin Falls, N.H., where I have had first class sport, having caught over 500 trout. This place is ninety-nine miles from Portland, and is reached via the Grand Trunk R.R. Fare from Boston for round trip via Portland steamer is $7.80. The Cascade House, Mr. H.F. Marson, proprietor, is a well-kept hotel, and the charges are $1 per day. There are many good trout brooks within easy distance. The best are Blackstrap, Chickwallupy, Silver Stream, Chandler’s Horn, and Jericho brooks. There is excellent pickerel fishing in the Androscoggin River, which is but a rod or two from the hotel.
This river was formerly filled with trout, but the chemicals from the wood-pulp mill situated on the river at this place have killed them nearly all. About half a mile below the hotel on the river, are the famous Berlin Falls. The scenery in the vicinity is very fine, Mt. Washington and the Summit House, also Mt. Adams, can be seen from the piazza of the hotel. A friend and myself caught 71 ¼ lbs. of trout in one day’s fishing from Chichwallupy Brook, and on another day 25 lbs. from Blackstrap. My friend also took over 200 trout in one day from Horn Brook. The trout run good size, many weighing from 6 to 9 ounces, and some more.
On my return home I brought twenty-two trout weighing about 8 lbs. From what I saw while there I should think the outlook for fall hunting was
good. Partridges and rabbits are abundant. T saw deer tracks several tiems along Chickwallupy Brook. An old hunter named Blofgett has trapped and killed four bears this season, and during my stay he caught a fifth, which escaped by gnawing off its paw and leaving it in the trap. We also saw three foxes.
E. W. M.
Springfield, Mass., July 23, 1883
- Published in the Forest and Stream Journal of New York City
This river was formerly filled with trout, but the chemicals from the wood-pulp mill situated on the river at this place have killed them nearly all. About half a mile below the hotel on the river, are the famous Berlin Falls. The scenery in the vicinity is very fine, Mt. Washington and the Summit House, also Mt. Adams, can be seen from the piazza of the hotel. A friend and myself caught 71 ¼ lbs. of trout in one day’s fishing from Chichwallupy Brook, and on another day 25 lbs. from Blackstrap. My friend also took over 200 trout in one day from Horn Brook. The trout run good size, many weighing from 6 to 9 ounces, and some more.
On my return home I brought twenty-two trout weighing about 8 lbs. From what I saw while there I should think the outlook for fall hunting was
good. Partridges and rabbits are abundant. T saw deer tracks several tiems along Chickwallupy Brook. An old hunter named Blofgett has trapped and killed four bears this season, and during my stay he caught a fifth, which escaped by gnawing off its paw and leaving it in the trap. We also saw three foxes.
E. W. M.
Springfield, Mass., July 23, 1883
- Published in the Forest and Stream Journal of New York City
