122 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



know of no better place for temporary sojourn than Canarsie. The Bay View 

 House there has a piazza that incloses it entirely on three stories. 



Livingston. County— 



Conesus Lake. Bass, pickerel, perch and other varieties of fish here furnish 

 good sport. Reached via the New York Central Railroad. 



-A'fw Yorli County — 



The Fishing about New York City. For striped bass, the favorite localities 

 are : in the East River, Hog's Back, Flood Rock, Big and Little Mill Rocks, 

 Holmes' Rock, Nigger Point, the Rope Walk and Ward's Island, Woolsey's 

 Point, Lawrence's Eddy, and along the Long Island shore ; the kills which con- 

 nect the East and Harlem Rivers ; in the Harlem River, at the floats foot of 3d 

 Avenue, McComb's Dam and King's Bridge. For fishing at these points boats 

 may be obtained at Colonel Brown's, foot of Thirty-second Street and Avenue 

 A.,E. R., Jeroloman's, foot of East Eighty-fourth Street, E. R., at Harlem Bridge 

 and McComb's Dam. Westchester Creek generally has good spring fishing. In 

 the Hudson River, the fish are usually fitst taken at'Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and 

 other localities where they begin to feed, after leaving their winter quarters at the 

 head of the river. A little later in the season, they are taken in great numbers 

 off One Hundred and Twentieth Street. The English Neighborhood, above 

 Hackensack, on the river of the same name, is much resorted to by anglers in the 

 proper season. Down the Bay, a noted place is the Kill Von KuU, which sepa- 

 rates Staten Island and the New Jersey shore, all along the Jersey Flats, good 

 fishing is to be had at the light-house, on the south end of Newark Bay, Bergen 

 Point, Robins Reef, and oft' the mouth of Caven Channel, below Communipaw. 

 Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, the N arrows and Princess Bay are also visited. 

 Captain Al. Foster's steamboat makes regular trips to the Fishing Banks. 



For weakfish, the most noted fishing grounds are about Fort Richmond and 

 the Narrows. Rockaway and Canarsie Bay afford good sheepshead fishing in 

 summer. Kingfish are also taken off Rockaway, as well as bluefish, bonita and 

 Spanish mackerel. 



Madison County — 



Oneida Lake. Pickerel and bass fishing good. Go to Canastota on the New 

 York Central Railroad, thence drive to Bridgeport or to the lake direct, or go to 

 Chittenango Station, thence three miles to Lakeport. 



South Lake. Woodcock and grouse. Reached via Utica and Black River 

 Railroad to Prospect, thence by highway. 



Monroe County — 



Rochester. Twenty-five miles from Rochester is Hemlock Lake, a fine fishing 

 ground for trout. This lake is reached by the Rochester Branch of the Erie 

 Railroad, ft om Livonia Station. Youman's stage line connects with the station. 

 It is six miles to the lake. 



At the foot of the lake is the Jacques House. On the western side is the 

 Lake Shore House. On the eastern side is located the Lima House, and Half- 

 way House, the regular stopping place for the steamer Selh Green, that plies its 

 way regularly each day to the head of the lake. 



On irondeqiioit Bay and at other localities, are widgeons and redheads, mal- 

 lards and black ducks, with good jack snipe, quail, grouse and woodcock shoot- 

 ing. The Brackett Marshes are favorite snipe grounds. Black and grey squirrels 

 are found in the vicinity. 



Greece. Ducks, brant, woodcock. Reached by drive from Rochester. 



Mendon Ponds. Pickerel, black bass, perch and strawberry bass are abundant. 

 Take the New York Central Railroad. 



Jiiagara County — 



Niagara Falls. The Niagara River, both above and below the Falls, is a 

 favorite resort of the anglers in the vicinity, who take large numbers of black bass 

 by loading their line with a bullet, and slinging it out into the channel of the river. 

 Then hauling in, the current gives the line an oblique direction, and the angler 

 frequently brings a fine bass to hand. 



Bass have been caught oft' the Three Sister Islands in the middle of the rapids, 

 and almost at the foot of the Falls they are plenty. There is also fine perch fish- 

 ing in the spring and fall, and seven miles below, at Lewiston, and still further 



