Fish and Fishing 



pano, and many others. From Norfolk to New 

 York, especially along the Delaware and Jersey 

 coast, is perhaps the best surf fishing 

 coast^*^^^^ on the Eastern coast. Every species of 

 salt-water game fish is taken, when in 

 season, and in some places fishing continues right 

 through the winter. The Jersey coast is particu- 

 larly good for surf casting for blue-fish, striped 

 bass, channel bass and weakfish: from Cape 

 May, Atlantic City, Beachhaven, Barnegat, Bel- 

 mar, Deal Beach, Long Branch, Seabright, 

 Atlantic Highlands, Sandy Hook, Raritan Bay, 

 and Perth Amboy. All around Staten Island, par- 

 ticularly the south-eastern shore, it is at all times 

 literally swarming with fish, including striped 

 bass, blue-fish, weakfish, fluke, kingfish, black- 

 fish and sea-bass. During the summer months 

 excellent fishing is to be had off the docks lining 

 both sides of the City of New York — tomcod, eels, 

 and Lafayette from the Battery to Yonkers; striped 

 bass, from One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street 

 to Mount St. Vincent; striped bass, tomcod, La- 

 fayette, at Hastings, Irvington, Ossining, Dobbs' 



Ferry, and Tarry town. From Hell Gate 

 Riter" ^® Bridgeport, New Haven, on to Block 



Island and Newport, every available space 

 of coast line has good fishing for striped bass, blue- 

 fish, weakfish, plaice, flounders, porgies, black -fish, 

 eels, and Lafayette. From Newport to Buzzards 

 Bay, Vineyard Sound, Nantucket Sound, and Cape 

 Cod, are blue-fish, codfish, porgies, and smelts. 

 F'or variety as well as quantity, the south shore 

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