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The fish are very similar to the fresh water fish of New York, only are taken 

 in much larger quantities. One species in Leech Lake worthy of mention, is the 

 Lake Superior white fish. They are only caught late in the fall with nets, and in 

 the winter are speared through openings in the ice ; they weigh about four pounds 

 each. Mascalonge weighing as high as thirty pounds, are caught with a hook ; 

 they are very gamy, and make exciting work when caught. They resemble 

 very much the common pike except in size. 



The fare from St. Paul to Brainerd is $10, thence to Leech Lake $6. Leech 

 Lake is an Indian Agency- 



Itasca Lake. For game of vicinity, see Leech Lake. 



Chisago County — 



Rush City. Deer, ruffed and pinnated grouse ; pickerel and pike. Reached 

 via Northern Pacific Railroad. Hotel and private board $5 to $7 per week ; 

 teams $4 per day. Country'- rolling and timbered, with many lakes in the 

 vicinity. 



North Branch Station. Deer, bears ; ruffed and pinnated grouse ; brook trout 

 and black bass. Reached via the Northern Pacific Railroad. Hotel $4 to $5 per 

 week ; teams $3 per day. The country is oak openings and swamp. 



Cottontvood County— 



From Bingham Lake, on the St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad, excellent sport- 

 ing grounds may be reached. Ducks, geese, brant, cranes and swans abound 

 in the lakes and sloughs, and pinnated grouse are found in great numbers on 

 the prairie. Beavers, minks, muskrats, and other fur bearing animals are 

 plenty. 



Crow Wing County — 



Brainerd. Moose, elk, deer, bears, wild cats in the dense woods east of 

 Brainerd. Ducks of all kinds and geese in great abundance, snipe, plover, rail, 



E in-tail, pinnated, and ruffed grouse, partridges. In the lakes are black and rock 

 ass, pickerel, pike, perch pike, mascalonge ; and the sa'.mo fontinalis in Trout 

 Lake, thirty-five miles north and all the lakes, reservoirs for the Prairie River. 

 Gull Lake, twelve miles north, Sullivan Lake, twelve miles west, Round, Long, 

 and Fish Trap Lakes are also favorite resorts. 



Brainerd, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, has a good hotel, and the sports- 

 man will here find all conveniences for camping out, cheap outfits, boats, tackle, 

 tents, guides, excellent hotel accommodations, and gentlemanly and obliging 

 amateur sportsmen. Reuben Gray keeps a stopping place at Gull Lake, a good 

 enough place for a hungry fisherman. West from Brainerd to the Red River 

 along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the country grows more open and 

 streams, lakes, marshes increase until you reach the wonderfuLRed River Flats. 

 Here it is entirely within bounds to say ducks can be found by the million. The 

 shallow ponds, the streams, the larger lakes are alive with them. It is no un- 

 common thing to see a thousand at once from the car window. Passing on a 

 hand-car, between stations, with a good dog, one could make a big bag without 

 leaving the track. At times pinnated grouse are almost as abundant. 



Withington is seventeen miles east of Brainerd on the Northern Pacific Rail- 

 road. In Serpent Lake are taken black and rock bass, mascalonge, pickerel 

 croppies and perch. Forty rods from Serpent is Agate Lake where the fishing is 

 excellent. On both these lakes boats can be procured. Half a mile further on is 

 Rabbit Lake (Crow Wing County) a large body of water full offish. Its outlet, a 

 sluggish stream ten miles long and flowing into the Mississippi, affords excellent 

 duck shooting. 



HaJiota County- 

 Hastings. Fine duck shooting on the river bottoms. Reached via the Chi- 

 cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, nineteen miles from St. Paul. 



Dodge County- 

 Rice Lake. Splendid duck and goose shooting on Rice Lake. Reached by 

 wagon from Pillager Station on the Pacific Railroad. 



JOouglas County— 



Millerville. Fine ruffed grouse shooting. See Wadena. 



