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fishing here, to reach which the angler should 
take the cars from this city to Mount Plea- 
sant, a distance of twenty-four miles, then 
hire a horse and wagon and drive up the 
stream seven or eight miles, and fish down, 
coming out near the hotel. If the fisherman 
prefers to fish up stream, then he can have 
the horse and wagon follow along the road. 
About eight miles from Mount Pleasant, to- 
ward the west, is another stream that comes 
tumbiiug down Snyder's Hollow. To reach 
this creek by the shortest route, a high moun- 
tain must be climbed, but when the stream is 
once gained the trout can be taken out almost 
as fast as tiie hook can be thrown in, though 
the fish are not usually of a large size. 
At Shandaken, which is thirty-three miles 
from Kingston, is the Deep Hollow stream, 
where trout abound, and where the angler 
will be treated to a view of the finest moun- 
tain scenery in the Catskills. Near the head 
of this hollow is a deep cut through the range, 
barely the width of a carriage road, while the 
mountains run up each side from one thous- 
and five hundred to two thousand feet, so 
nearly perpendicular the top can be seen 
while standing at the foot. In the place the 
sun seldom shines, except in Winter, and ice 
ead be found a few feet from the carilage-way 
during the hottest days of August. 
Three miles above Shandaken is the mouth 
of the Big Indian Hollow, from which flows 
a deep and rapid stream. The trout in this 
creek are quite large, but extremely shy, so 
that it requires a most expert fisherman to 
take them. Near its source is a high moun- 
tain that crosses the hollow, making it a sort 
of cul de sac, while over the mountain is the 
west branch of the Neversink, one of the best 
trouting streams, and one of the roughest in 
this country. Men have been known to stand 
in one spot and catch fifty fish, some of them 
weighing over a pound. 
A few miles from this place, just around the 
base of the Peekomose, which, by the way, is 
the highest mountain of the Catskill range, 
being about four thousand two hundred feet 
in height, is the stream called the ‘“ Head of 
the Roundout.” This creek runs through a 
deep gorge in places over a hundred feet in 
depth, and often forming a canon by cutting 
through the solid rock. It is very laborious 
work to fish here, as the angler must neces- 
surly wade in the water, which in places is 
quite deep and very cold, even in July. On 
this creek is a place called Sun Down, so call- 
ed, it is presume’, because the sun is always 
down so far as the settlers in this region is 
concerned. The scenery is of the wildest de- 
sciption, and quite satisfactory even to the 
most poetically inclined. 
In the town of Hardenburg, which lies 
about twenty miles further north, is the Mill 
Brook stream running through a region so 
well guarded on the south by mountains that 
it is inaccessible from any part of Ulster coun- 
ty. To reach this the fisherman must go on 
the railroad to Dean’s Corners, in Delaware 
county, forty-eight miles from this city, and 
from thence travel with a horse and wagon 
nineteen miles over a high mountain, when 
he will be able to camp on the banks of per- 
haps the best trout stream in the State. Mull 
Brook is forty miles in length, and trout can 
be caught auywhere in its waters. It is no 
rare occurrence for an amateur-to catch from 
three hundred to four hundred in a single 
day. 
Tn this part of the country are a number of 
small lakes or ponds, being the sources of 
various streams that run in different direc- 
tions. They are named Furlough Lake 
Balsam Lake, Pand’s Pond, Tunis Lake, &c., 
and in some of them trout have been caught 
that weighed over four pounds. <A few years 
ago a trout weighing five pounds was taken 
from one of these lakes, and exhibited for 
some time iu Barnum’s museum in New York 
city. 
The expense of traveling to these streams 
and Jakes from Kingston, and remaining there 
a few days, would be between $50 and $60. 
The trip is a very pleasant one, and families 
from Newburg, Poughkeepsie, and other 
places, camp out along these lakes often for a 
month during the Suinmer season. They live 
in tents or log huts on the shores, and take 
provisions enough with them to last until they 
return home. 
These lakes, streams, ponds, &c., in the vi- 
cinity of Westport, Essex county, abound 
with black, bass, trout, pickerel, &c. In the 
neighborhood of Champlain, Clinton county, 
there is excellent salmon and brook trout fish- 
ing. There are some fine trout streams near 
Sardina, Erie county. Hemlock Lane, Mad- 
