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visions may be secured. The country is rough and mountainous, and hard and 

 fatiguing tramps are necessary for successful sport here. 



Ohio County— 



Wheeling. Good quail shooting is found on the Ohio River bottoms below 

 Wheeling. Reached via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 



Randolph County— 



Beverly. The mountain streams contain trout, and in the larger streams are 

 found black bass. Reached via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Webster, 

 thence via wagon road. The country is difficult of access, and the fish not very 

 large. Board can be obtained among the farmers. 



TucUer County- 

 Hoy^ s Wilderness, and the Black-water Region. The Blackvvater lies among the 

 mountains twenty-six miles south of Oakland, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- 

 road. The stream is one of the extreme eastern affluents of the Ohio. It runs 

 thiough a forest country of probably thirty miles in length and width, a tract of 

 some nine hundred square miles, almost as wild as any part of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. In all this region, there is hardly a settler to 'the hundred square miles; 

 in the part usually visited by trout fishermen, there is but one house, a lone log 

 lauilding ten miles from the nearest settlement, known among the mountaineers 

 as " Dobbins." In winter the region is entirely deserted, but with the opening of 

 the fishing season in May, a family by the name of Kitzmiller moves in and accom- 

 modates visitors with plain and substantial country fare. This is the only place in 

 the wilderness where shelter or supplies can be obtained, except at " Cosner's," 

 eighteen miles up the river. " Dobbins " is headquarters for trout, while for taear, 

 deer, turkey and grouse shooting, the sportsman should go to Wm. Kitzmiller's, 

 thirteen miles from Oakland, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. To reach 

 either point, a letter should be sent to William Kitzmiller, Oakland, Garrett Co., 

 Md. He will provide conveyance thence into the wilderness. He furnishes 

 board at $1.50 per day. Outfit can be procured at Oakland. Thomas Basley of 

 Oakland will give all needed information. The Blackvvater is a stream some 

 thirty or forty yards in width, clear of driftwood and trash, and the chance for 

 casting the fly on it is first-class. The fishing in the proper season. May, June and 

 September, is magnificent. The trout average rather small, and have not the 

 activity of those of more northern and colder streams. The large ones, however, 

 will give the wielder of a light fly rod enough to do. 



Wood County — 



Parkersburg. By taking steamer up the Little Kanawha, thence up Hugh's 

 River, ten or twenty miles, the sportsman will find excellent localities tor camp- 

 ing. t)eer and squirrel shooting is excellent ; black bass and trout are caught m 

 large numbers. Take the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 



WISCONSIN. 



Area 53,924 square miles; population, 1,054,670. The surface 

 of Wisconsin is a rolling prairie, interspersed with numerous oak 

 openings and a great number of lakes. The water system of the 

 State comprises innumerable streams forming a complete network 

 of magnificent fishing waters. The extensive forests, known as 

 the Big Woods, are the haunts of bears, deer, and other game in 

 such variety and abundance as to attract many sportsmen from 

 other States. The fishing is good throughout the State ; black 

 bass, trout, and other varieties are always to be found within con- 



