HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
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Egg Harbor, Barnegat Bay, the Great 
South Bay of Long Island, and the Con- 
necticut River near Saybrook. At all 
these places, good lodging accommoda- 
tions and experienced gunners can be 
found. 
LONG ISLAND. 
ITS HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND 
SUMMER RESORTS. 
The following description of the hunt- 
ing and fishing localities and pleasant 
places on Long Island was colated ex- 
pressly for Fur, Fin, anp Feratuenr. 
It includes about all the points worth 
visiting. 
The angler who takes his annual trip to the 
Adirondacks or Canadian waters, and expecis 
on returning home to be able to boast of hav- 
ing caught his fifty to eighty pounds of trout 
daily, and who cares for quantity rather than 
quality of sport, would scarcely be satisfied 
with that on the salt marshes, ponds, and 
streams of Long Island. But the well-trained 
disciple of Izaak Walton, he who can handle 
the most delicate tackle and cast a long line, 
not only without the remotest chance of a 
suarl, but so deftly that the fly shall fall as 
light as a snowflake, aud who will be well sat- 
isfied with the capture of a half dozen fish 
when that is due entirely to his own skill; may 
find numerous spots either on the ‘ South 
Side” or along the north and east shores, 
where he can bring his-scientific angling into 
play. 
This refers only to such fishing as is open 
to the public; there are numerous preserves 
and private ponds on the Island where a bas- 
ket full of well-bred and well-fed trout may 
be quickly landed, but access to these can ouly 
be had through the permission of the propri- 
etors. 
There are several noted sporting resorts on 
the Island; Fire Island is known as the head- 
quarters for bluefish; in the Fall wild-fowl 
shooting is good there, as is also snipe shoot. 
ing. Sayville is oue of those places where the 
visitor can vary the sport in troilling for blue- 
fish and Spanish mackerel; casting the fly for 
trout or knocking over bay snipe, or stopping 
the flight of all kinds of wild fowl. Patchogue 
is an excellent place for quail shooting, and we 
know of no place in close proximity to New 
York City, where Bob Whites in favorable 
sessons are more abundant; but for a week’s 
gunning and fishing in a nice, unfrequented 
spot, commend us to Noyac and its beautiful 
bay, situated about four miies from the old 
town of Sag Harbor, on the Long Island Rail- 
road. 
For wild-duck shooting no place on the 
Island affords more game, and the best mode 
of proceeding is either to station yourself at 
daylight on the beach of Jessup’s Neck (where 
there is excellent bluefish fishing to be had m 
the season) and await your chance for shots at 
the flight of ducks, which regularly cross from 
Noyae Bay to Little Peconic Bay, or to take a 
boat and get in amongst the wild fowl as they 
float on the surface of the pay. 
Back of the cultivated strip of land on which 
Noyace stands, the woods extend about four 
miles towards Bridgehampton, and in the 
marshy portion woodeock shooting is good in 
season; partridges and rabbits are also plenti- 
ful, so that what with the enjoyable retirement 
of this spot and the facilities for sport, one 
may thorcughly take his pleasure for a week 
or two at a very small pecuniary outlay. 
Canoe Place is on the narrow isthmus be- 
tween the Shinnecock and Great Peconic Bays, 
in the waters of the latter weakfish, bluefish, 
striped bass, and kingfish are all in turn to 
be caught with a clam bait—a molluse for 
which the place is noted—rods and reels for 
those who fancy pole fishing, lines and sinkers 
for those choosing drop lines. The Island 
here is scarce half a mile wide, and a walk of 
that distance over the sandy dunes, held to- 
gether by bunches of wiry } each grass, reaches 
the beach of Shinnecock where the best of bay 
shooting can be hadin August and September, 
and which becomes a paradise for duck and 
goose shooters later in the Fall. At Good 
Ground, Gapt. Wm. Lane has one of the best 
resorts for duck shooting to be found in this 
section, and he knows how to entertain his 
friends. Most excellent accommodations can 
also be had at the Bay View House, kept by 
Mr. M. Williams. He has plenty of birds, 
good guides, complete outfit of decoys, batter- 
