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THE SPORTSMAN’S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE. 
Bay is where, in the Spring, those mag- 
nificent salt-water trout are taken, said 
to be the finest specimens of the fish in 
tue country, often attaining the weight 
of three and four pounds, and silvery as 
salmon. Child’s River, Paket, Wakeley 
Pond, Waquoit, and several others, the 
names of which are not remembered, are 
noted localities. These streams are about 
fourteen miles from West Barnstable. 
The trout of the Cape Cod streams are 
highly prized for their excellent flavor. 
These ponds in mention are the resorts 
of numerous Summer (wood) and black 
ducks in the Fall and Spring months, and 
are visited by sportsmen from Boston, 
as well as all the neighboring villages. 
All through these woods are quail, ruffed 
grouse, rabbits, and some few woodcock 
—rabbits are exiremely plenty, and can 
be shot almost any where. The grounds 
are easily reached by stopping at any of 
the stations on the different divisions. 
Wareham, Agawain, Cohasset »ar- 
rows, Pocasset, Sandwich, West Barn- 
stable, Cotuit Port, Hyanuis, Brewster, 
Chatham, and Wood’s Hole, accessible 
by Cape Cod Division; Abington, Plymp- 
ton, and Plymouth reached by Plymouth 
Division; Weymouth, Hingham, Nantas- 
ket, Cohasset, Scituate, Marshfield, and 
Duxbury, accessible South Shore 
Branch and Cohasset & Duxbury Exten- 
sion; Quincy, Randolph, Fall River, 
and Tiverton, ou the Newport Branch; 
and New Bedford, the terminus of the 
New Bedford Divison, are good points to 
via 
ing and fishing grounds in the Plymouth 
and Barnstable Woods are easily reached 
from any of the towns mentioned as be- 
Plymouth. Wareham, Agawam, Cobas- 
set Narrows, and Poceasset are at the 
head of Buzzard’s Bay, affording excel- 
' and has a good stove. 
make headquarters. All the best shoot- | 
lent salt water fishing. The railroad 
bridge at Coha-set Narrows is a noted 
spot for striped bass. At times these 
striped fellows are very abundant and of 
goodly proportions. ‘The writer witness- 
ed the capture one afternoon by one rod 
from off this bridge of two bass, one 
weighing thirty-three pounds and the 
other thirty-seven pounds; besides these, 
there were some twenty-five or thirty 
others taken by various parties weigh- 
ing from three pounds up to seventeen. 
The latter part of August and the early 
part of September is the best time and 
shedder crab, menhaden, and shrimp the 
bait the fish “go for.” Along the shores 
of Buzzard’s Bay, within half a mile of 
Pocasset, an abundance of fine oysters 
and clams can be had for the gathering. 
Old-fashioned New England bakes are 
one of the institutions the villagers still 
support. About a quarter of a mile from 
Pocasset is a small pond literally alive 
with white perch, averaging about half 
a pound each in weight. The best points 
for deer are West Barnstable and White 
Island Pond, giving the former the pre- 
ference. White Island Pond is about 
five miles from Plymouth, and is well 
stocked with black bass, pickerel, and 
white and yellow perch. ‘The white 
perch are of large size, and extremely 
fine eating. Near by the pond is an old 
deserted shanty, one of the out-buildings 
attached to a saw-mill that once stood 
there, that has been fitted up with bunks 
It is not in very 
good condition, but by keeping up a 
wood fire, one can make himself decid- 
edly comfortable, much more so than in 
a tent, especially in cold and wet weath- 
ing on the Cape Cod Division, and from | 
er. Of the fishing grounds accessible 
from New Bedford and Wood’s Hole it 
is hardly necessary to speak. New Bed- 
ford is on Buzzard’s Bay, where every 
