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Almost duy uf llie South Jersey seashore points may 

 be reached from IMiiladelphia by lutiruiiig- traius in 

 time to enjoy a good day's fishing and return again in 

 the eveninL>. 



FUKSII WATER FlSFriNO. 

 BASS. 



The best lilaclc Llass hshing is repo-rted along the 

 Upper Delawai'e from Lambert ville, New Jersey, 

 northward to Hancock, New York. Excellent fishing 

 is reported near Milford, Riegelsville, Carpenterville, 

 Martin's Creek, Manuuka Chunk, Delaware ^\'ater 

 Gap, and further up at Port Jer\is, Narrowsburg, and 

 Cochecton. Good fishing is also found in the Brandy- 

 wine near Wilmington, and in the Schuylkill and its 

 larger tributaries. 



PERCH. 



Probably the best White Perch fishing in the United 

 States is found near Betterton, Kent county, Mary- 

 land, on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. 

 Good fishing is also found in the Delaware river as 

 far north as Milford, New Jersey, and generuilly a 

 considerable distance up all the tributaries of that 

 stream. Among the streams on the Jersey side where 

 perch abound in their season are the Rancocas, Coop- 

 er's, Timber, Woodbury, Salem, Cohansey, and Alloway 

 Creeks, and Maurice river. The Neshaminy and 

 Brandy wine near their mouths also abound with them. 



PIK-B. 



Pike fishing is reported good in the tributaries of 

 the Delaware river, as well as the rivers and creeks 



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