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 

 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 

 to 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. 

 For variety as well as quantity, the south shore 

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