ithe RI GAN ANGLER. 
VOL. 25. 
AUGUST, 1895. 
No. 8 
FISHING AND HUNTING IN SULLIVAN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 
BY GEORGE J. 
The map of Sullivan County, New 
York, is dotted over with lakes (many 
of them modestly called ‘‘ ponds,”’ 
though they are large enough to be 
called lakes), while brooks and rivers 
are found in equal profusion. It is the 
opinion of David Avery, President of 
Monticello, the county seat, himself a 
sportsman, that fishing in this sect‘on 
has improved very much within the 
last few years. About twenty years 
ago a great many tanneries were lo- 
cated in this county. The water from 
these tanneries contaminated the brooks 
and smaller ponds, and for a time 
. nearly destroyed the fishing. After 
a while, however, the supply of hemlock 
bark in the county gave out, the tan- 
neries quit business for want of a sup= 
ply of this material with which to work, 
the streams again became clear, and 
now old Sullivan County is regaining 
its reputation as one of the best fishing 
grounds in the State. 
Another reason why the fishing is 
improving in this section is because 
there has lately been established in the 
county, in the town of Roscoe in the 
northwestern section of the county on 
the Ontario and Western Railroad, a 
State hatchery, carried on and supported 
by the State. From this hatchery the 
streams and lakes of the county have 
been stocked (principally with trout), 
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scarcely one of them failing to receive 
its quota during the year. 
Of the trout streams in this county, 
one of the first in importance is the 
Neversink.river which runs a distance 
of more than forty miles through the 
county. This can be reached from 
Fallsburg station on the Ontario and 
Western Railroad. From this point 
the visitor goes back to Woodbourne, a 
beautifully situated little village on the 
banks of the river, or further up to 
Neversink or Claryville. Next, in the 
scale of importance, is the Beaverkill, 
also in the northwestern part of the 
county, reached from Rockland station 
or Livingston Manor on the same line of 
railroad. For twenty miles this long 
stream runs through the county, finally 
emptying into the Delaware river at 
East Branch, Delaware County, New 
York. In the same neighborhood is 
the Willowemoc, about twenty-five 
miles long, running through Neversink 
and Rockland. Shin creek, in this 
town, is a small but good stream. 
Another famous trout stream is the 
Mongaup river. This stream is di- 
vided into three branches—the east, 
west and middle—which meet in Mon- 
gaup valley, about five miles from Mon- 
ticello, and form the river proper. This 
trout stream is well known, and on the 
first day of the season its banks are 
