CHAPTER XIX 

 HASTY VISITS TO AMERICA 



THE untravelled English angler has, pardonably enough, 

 vague notions as to the sport to be had with the rod 

 of a mere visitor in the United States. He fancies 

 generally that he has only to come, see, and conquer ; 

 and this is partly because he confuses Canada with the 

 country south of the great chain of lakes. No doubt 

 there is an abundant variety of angling in the States ; 

 but here, as at home, you must go far afield. Do not 

 forget that even the best American streams are as 

 easily fished out as our own. Pending the completion 

 of the Exhibition at Chicago, I had been gathering, 

 from reliable sources, some facts that may be of use to 

 those readers who are always craving knowledge in the 

 columns of the fishing papers ; and I endeavoured to 

 discover what the casual visitor, finding himself at the 

 best-known cities, may expect without travelling too 

 far from his base of operations. The result of my 

 inquiries, however, is at best only an outline sketch, and 

 it may be that time has brought changes. 



Let us suppose that you are in New York. At the 

 termination of the voyage, when you were not engaged 

 in admiring the pretty residences on the wooded slopes 

 of Staten Island, you would look occasionally to the 

 right upon Long Island, one of the lungs of New York, 



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