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Ken and Dean:

Spiller did write about a parson who he befriended at a Boy Scout jamboree. And the following Spring they fished the Rangeley Lakes, Maine region together, e. g., Quimby Pond. The parson’s ministry was near enough to the area they fished, that Spiller remained local for an extra day just to attend the parson’s Sunday church service. Spiller did not identify his friend by name, but wrote of this in the chapter “Fisherman’s Luck”, in his posthumously published FISHIN’ AROUND.

It may, however, be a too much of a stretch to postulate a connection between Spiller’s “parson” friend and the Reverend Mr. MacDougall, whose ministry, being in Bingham, Maine is more associated with the fishing areas of the Kennebec River drainage. It is a region that does have a MacDougall Pond (is that connected with the Reverend MacDougall, Sr. or Jr.?) and an Enchanted Pond (which the book cover illustrated may be associated with).