Where to Get Them 



to stay, not only for l)ass, but large pike. Side 



trips can be made to Raqiiette, Forked, White, 



Fourth, Bisby, and Sucker lakes; 



Ch mo lain ^^^^ "^ ^^^^ Black and Moon rivers. 

 In western New York by far the 

 best bass fishing is in Chautauqua Lake, where 

 the fish are large, pugnacious fighters, and I 

 consider it as good as the St. Law- 

 Lake rence as a place to enjoy sport, be- 

 cause it also has the mascalonge. 

 Bemus Point is a famous place for head-quarters. 

 Within 150 miles of New York the best bass 

 fishing is in the Delaware River, at East Branch, 

 Deposit, Fish Eddy, Cook's Falls, and 

 some distance along the Beaverkill. 

 Both branches of the Delaware at this point are 

 swarming with bass, above and below the junc- 

 tion, right down to Port Jervis. There are count- 

 less lakes and ponds, with their tributaries well 

 stocked with bass, in the counties of Delaware, 

 Sullivan, and Broome, in New York, as well as 

 the counties of Wayne, Pike, and Susquehanna in 

 Pennsylvania. 



In the Schuylkill River there are many stretches 

 of good bass water, particularly that 

 from Royer's Ford to Yankee Dam, a 

 distance of three miles, and about thirty miles 

 from Philadelphia. In a like manner the Sus- 

 quehanna River from Binghamton, 

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on the north branch, and the 



Chemung River which joins it just below Athens, 



and nearly all the Susquehanna's many tributa- 



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