Where to Get Them 



of Long Island furnishes the best fishing on the 

 (•astern coast. From the httle juicy porgy up to 

 a ;:i50-pound tuna, or horse-mackerel, a 450-pound 

 shark, or a 90-foot whale. Long Island provides 

 at some part of the season every 

 sea-fish that runs along the eastern 

 shores. It is asserted that over thirty thousand 

 anglers fish this strip of shore during the summer 

 months; in addition comfortable sea-going steam- 

 boats carry a crowd of deep-sea anglers from New 

 York City every day to the various wrecks that 

 dot the coast. From Sea Gate to Montauk Point, 

 there are hundreds of bays and inlets to choose 

 from ; a few of the best are as follows : Bath Beach, 

 Coney Island (on Iron Steamboat, Dreamland, 

 Steeplechase piers). Coney Island Bell-buoy, Coney 

 Island Creek, Fort Hamilton, Fort Lafayette, 

 Gravesend Bay, Rockaway Beach, Norton's 

 Point, Plum Beach, Stone PUe, Ulmer Park. At 

 Jamaica Bay is Barren Island, Big Channel, 

 Block House Wreck, Break Water, Fishkill Chan- 

 nel, Flatlands Bay, Irish Creek, Pumpkin Patch, 

 Rockaway Point, and Ruffle Bar. At the eastern 

 end of Jamaica Bay is Beach Channel, Black Wall, 

 Goose Creek, Hassock Creek, Hook Creek, Raunt, 

 Silver Hole, Valentine's Point. On the south 

 shore, Far Rockaway, Fire Island, and Great 

 South Bay, the latter a large shallow bay, almost 

 enclosed, full of fish and of great variety. Stations 

 on the Long Island Railroad are near these 

 various points — Hempstead Bay, Hewletts, Inner 

 Beach, Long Beach, Woodsburg, and Wreck Lead. 

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