THE AMERICAN TROUT. 39 
be the best fislierman in that neighborhood. A person 
residing near a stream, and having fished it from infancy, 
and acquainted with its every pool, has an immense 
advantage over a stranger ; but there was only one coun- 
tryman ever beat me trout-fishing, a;nd he, after taking 
me to the stream, slipped off and Avaded it down ahead 
of me. 
All the streams that, taking their rise in or near this 
State, flow into the Delaware or Susquehanna, are filled 
with trout; the Tobyhanna, the Bushkill, Broadhead's 
Creek and a thousand others, that the Erie and Lacka- 
wanna railroads now make easy of access. While Hamil- 
ton County, Essex, the region of the Adirondacks, Clinton 
County with its Chateaugay and Chazy Lakes, and the 
Saranac Kiver, and Franklin County with its innumera- 
ble ponds, offer all the sport that the heart of man can 
desire. All the streams of 'Ne^v England, especially in 
the neighborhood of the White Mountains, are filled 
with small trout ; while the State of Maine, in Moose- 
head Lake, the Kennebec, and its other fine rivers and 
lakes, affords the finest brook trout-fishing in the world. 
The angler may, therefore, seek his darling close to 
his own summer-house, or may drop in at any of the 
many well kept taverns on the south side of Long 
Island, where he will find every comfort and most of 
the luxuries of the day, will meet other enthusiastic 
fishermen, who will relate varied and interesting expe- 
riences, and exchange views and fancies with him, 
and will prove themselves, if real fishermen, the most 
obliging and unselfish gentlemen in the world ; or he 
may seek the lonely hotel at Lake Pleasant or Moose- 
