GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 1 79 



Elkhorn. Woodcock, pinnated grouse, ruffed grouse, Wilson snipe, Canada 

 geese, brant, quail, ducks, including blue bells, butter-balls, ruddy ducks, pin- 

 tails, widgeons, redheads, whistlers, scooters, canvas-backs, mallards, wood 

 ducks, and teal. The game however is not of sufficient quantity to ensure suc- 

 cess to sportsmen from abroad. In Geneva Lake tine sport is had with the cisco. 

 the annual run of which begins about June loth, and lasts for a week. Follow- 

 ing the Cisco run comes the regular fishing season, when may be had in any of 

 the many beautiful lakes of this section capital sport with rod and line. Black 

 bass, rock bass, pike-perch, pickerel, and yellow perch are abundant in all the 

 waters. 



Delaware Lake, four miles distant, is a favorite place for pickerel and trolling. 



Elkhorn is on the Western Union Railroad. Hotel and private board $1 to $2 

 per day ; guides, rarely necessary, $1.50 to $2 per day ; boats 50 cents. 



Troy. Cisco and other fishing in Troy Lake. 



Wauhesha County — 



Pewaukee. Nineteen miles west of Milwaukee, on the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 and SL Paul Railroad is the pleasant lake and village of Pewaukee. This lake is 

 six miles long and a mile wide, and the black bass fishing most excellent. Heath's 

 Hotel and the Oakton Springs Hotel, in the village, and the Lakeside, further up 

 the lake, furnish accommodations of the best kind. 



Oconomotvoc, is twelve miles west of Pewaukee, and thirty miles from Milwau- 

 kee on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. Asa summer resort it is 

 popularly known as the " Saratoga of the West," and in sporting parlance it is an 

 " Angler's Paradise." Within a radius of eight miles there are no less than 

 thirty lakes, varying from one to several square miles in extent, and teeming with 

 black bass, Oswego or green bass, northern pickerel, and the smaller fry of rock 

 bass, silver bass, yellow perch, cisco, etc. In the vicinity the sportsman will find 

 woodcock, pinnated, ruffed and sharp-tailed grouse, wild geese, brant, ducks, 

 plover and snipe. The favorite lakes with anglers are La Belle, Fowler, Okau- 

 chee, Oconorhowoc, Nemahbin, Nashotah, Nagowicka, Genesee, Pine, 13eaver, 

 North, Silver, and Golden. They are all well supplied with fishing boats, and at 

 Oconomowoc experienced guides and boatmen can be obtained at a moderate 

 price. The hotel accommodations are ^mple and excellent, and terms reasona- 

 ble. The Townsend House, on Fowler Lake, Draper Hall, La Belle House, and 

 Woodlands are beautifully located, and are very handsome and convenient in 

 their appointments. Giffords', on Oconomowoc Lake, is very romantically situ- 

 ated, and is quite a favorite resort. In addition to these hotels are numerous 

 boarding houses, agreeably and pleasantly situated, and well conducted. Owing 

 to the remarkably fine roads the livery stables are unusually good, with lively- 

 stepping horses and first-cliss vehicles. J. C. Hitchcock & Co., manufacturers 

 of the " Oconomowoc bass rod," keep a full stock of fishing tackle of all kinds, 

 and the angler can here procure everything necessary to his sport. Black River 

 has rock and black bass. 



Winnebago Coiitity — 



Menasha and Neenah. These twin cities are one hundred miles north of Mil- 

 waukee, and can be reached by either the Wisconsin Central Railroad or North- 

 western Railroad. They lie at the foot of Winnebago Lake, on either side of Fox 

 River, the outlet of the lake. This is the largest lake in Wisconsin, being thirty 

 miles long with an average width of five miles. On the opposite side of the cities 

 is Lake Buttes des Morts. The bass fishing here is very good ; the Neenah chan- 

 nel of Fox River is especially good for fly fishing. The rapids of the lower P'ox 

 River also furnish some of the finest of sport. Kaukauna rapid in particular. 



nearly a mile in extent, is a wild eddying part of the stream, grand in its scenery 

 and rich in ragged shelving rocks and dark deep pools, that are well filled with 

 large, dark colored, rather'slim, active fellows that are no burlesque on western 

 civilization ; and the Nimrod who can preserve his light tackle in order, and 

 retain his fish in some of the headlong races he must make down the stream over 

 boulders and brambles with one of these fellows on the lead for his favorite pool, 

 must lose all thought of self and the consequence of a disordered appearance at 

 the close of the race. Garlic Island is another good spot. The bass are mostly 

 of the small-mouth variety. Here are also found the while bass, the pike perch, 

 pickerel, catfish, bullheads, shad, laken here with fly, and, to the occasional 

 disgust of the angler, the sheepshead, not Sargiis ovis but Corvina oscula. The 

 sturgeon also holds high carnival in these waters, sometimes attaining the weight 

 of two hundred pounds. The National Hotel at Menasha is the angler's resort. 



