Fish and Fishing 



anglers to get three trout on one rig. Catches 

 of twelve to fifteen lake trout from four to six 

 pounds are frequently made, even by amateurs. 

 Specimens have been caught up to twenty pounds. 

 . , . The lake trout is a native of the 

 Great Lakes, and is found in its 

 largest and best condition in Lakes Huron, Mich- 

 igan, and Superior. In those lakes, specimens 

 weighing fifty pounds are not uncommon, one 

 having been recorded of the enormous weight of 

 ninety pounds and six feet in length. 



This covers, incompletely, the best deep-water 

 fishing for trout. There are, no doubt, isolated 

 sections in many States where good trout may be 

 caught. 



For anglers residing in the Eastern States, the 

 best fishing I know for speckled, brown, and rain- 

 bow trout, in brooks and small rivers, caught on 

 the fly and with the worm, is in the mountainous 

 section of Monroe, Pike, and Wayne counties of 

 Pennsylvania and of Delaware, Sullivan and 

 Ulster co-unties in New York ; also in parts of west- 

 ern New Jersey. The method of fishing in this 

 section is mainly by wading down the rippling 

 brooks, or in the middle of rivers, not over two 



Monroe, Pike, ^^^^ ^^^P' ""^^'^ ^^^^ "^^^^ ^^^^^ 

 and Wayne and favorable conditions — untram- 

 counties melled, free to all, no guides or 



boats or long wearisome journeys. I have many 

 times in numerous places creeled twenty-five nice 

 ten-inch trout. 



In Monroe County, the best locations are the 

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