THE AMERICAN ANGLER. 



Vol. 26. 



MAY, 1896. 



No. 5. 



OLD COLONY FLSHING AND SHOOTING. 



The shores of every harbor and bay 

 and roadstead south of Boston, and all 

 the southeastern shores of Rhode Island 

 and Connecticut, are fertile fields for 

 the angler's outings. To these sections 

 may be added the coasts and islands of 

 the southern harbor of Boston, of Dor- 

 chester Bay and of the Weymouth, 

 Hingham, Nantasket and Cohasset 

 waters, "inside" and "outside;" the 

 entire southern shore from Cohasset to 

 Plymouth, including the Scituates, 

 Marshfields and Duxbury ; the coast of 

 Cape Cod, on both the bay and ocean 

 sides, for the entire length of that sandy 

 projection, and the whole of Barnstable 

 County; also the shores of Vineyard 

 Sound and Buzzards Bay, the islands of 

 Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard and 

 the Elizabethan Islands. All these 

 yield to the rod a bountiful harvest. 



Not alone the ocean waters may be 

 relied upon in this quarter of the coun- 

 try — this choice morsel of the world, so 

 to speak — as furnishing favorable and 

 promising resorts for fishermen, for 

 within this territory there are also, in 

 almost every part, great ponds, lakelets 

 and streams of clear, and often spring- 

 fed, fresh waters lying inland, that are 

 in almost every instance naturally 

 stocked with fine fish in great variety, 

 while many of these have been arti- 

 ficially supplied with choice fish of game 

 qualities — black bass, varieties of trout, 

 pike, pickerel, etc. 



There is, practically, no section of the 



ocean coasts referred to in the forego- 

 ing that is not eligible as a fishing point 

 for the varieties usually in the sea 

 waters of this part of New England. 

 Cod, mackerel, hake, flounders, sea 

 perch (cunners), tautog, striped and sea 

 bass — these kinds are to be taken in ex- 

 cursions from every part of the shores 

 from Boston to Newport ; while blue- 

 fish, scup, sea bass, etc., form the staple 

 of sport in the A^neyard Sound and 

 Buzzards Bay waters, and on every 

 side of the great islands of the Vmeyard 

 and Nantucket, or, if it is desired to 

 cruise for larger game, the ocean waters 

 about these islands present the field 

 therefor ; and some of the most exciting 

 sport known in fishing is furnished by 

 the Provincetown whale catchers, whose 

 boats frequently pursue enormous spec- 

 imens of this sea animal within the 

 limits of Massachusetts and Cape Cod 

 Bays, with results of stirring incidents, 

 novel situations aiid startling experi- 

 ences second to none ever taking place 

 in Pacific or Arctic .vaters. 



Marshfield, on the south shore of 

 Massachusetts, was the home of Daniel 

 Webster ; and it can not be doubted 

 that one of the reasons why he so much 

 delighted in this particular section was 

 that it furnished, in the waters of the 

 Great Bay adjacent, abundant and con- 

 stant opportunity for the gratification 

 of his taste as a fisherman. Day after 

 day in the summer time, or at any time 

 when he could rusticate about his 



