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Title: The book of fish and fishing;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s waters on the North AmericanContinent. A hundred miles from To-ronto is Havelock, with very fine bass fishing inthe River Trent, notably between Trent Bridgeand Healy Falls, especially near the latter. In central Ontario, but eight hours from Buf-falo, are the ten Kawartha lakes, all literallyswarming with gamy bass that, early in theseason, take the fly. Then there is the famous Gatineau River, withmany tributaries and lakes dotting its windingcourse directly through the Laurentian Moun-tains; also the Chats Rapids, on the Ottawa. River, give splendid bass fishing. Allthese waters in Canada, while famed forbass, also afford magnificent mascalonge, as wellas trout, very often in the same waters. In thenative home of the bass, in the MiddleWest ^ Western States of Wisconsin, Michigan,Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky, the popu-larity of that fish is supreme. In northern New York bass are abundant inLake Champlain, especially near St. Albans.Bass anglers will find Samsons an ideal place128
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POPULAR FRESH-WATER GAME FISH Where to Get Them to stay, not only for bass, but large pike. Sidetrips can be made to Raquette, Forked, White,Fourth, Bisby, and Sucker lakes;Champlain ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Black and Moon rivers.In western New York by far thebest bass fishing is in Chautauqua Lake, wherethe fish are large, pugnacious fighters, and Iconsider it as good as the St. Law-Lake rence as a place to enjoy sport, be-cause it also has the mascalonge.Bemus Point is a famous place for head-quarters.Within 150 miles of New York the best bassfishing is in the Delaware River, at East Branch,Deposit, Fish Eddy, Cooks Falls, andsome distance along the Beaverkill.Both branches of the Delaware at this point areswarming with bass, above and below the junc-tion, right down to Port Jervis. There are count-less lakes and ponds, with their tributaries wellstocked with bass, in the counties of Delaware,Sullivan, and Broome, in New York, as well asthe counties of Wayne, Pike, and Susquehanna inPennsylvania

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