GENERAL REMARKS. 15 



Or, he may coast the shores of our western 

 lakes, where the bright sun sparkles on the rippling 

 surface, and only seek the shade upon the land to 

 avoid its heat ; there he may kill the black bass, the 

 mascallonge, and in Lake Superior the trout ; flee- 

 ing from the approaching storm to some sheltered 

 nook, he partakes the inland ocean's varying 

 moods, passing the days upon its surface and the 

 nights amid the neighboring forests; stopping oc- 

 casionally to use the light shot-gun and kill a few 

 woodcock or partridges, and now and then slaying a 

 duck upon the route. 



In the wide world there is no other country so 

 propitious to the fisherman as the northern part of 

 North America ; it furnishes every variety of sport, 

 from the delicate refined fishing of the transparent 

 ponds and over-fished trout-preserves of Long Island, 

 to the coarser and easier sport of killing with large 

 flies and heavy rods the countless hosts of Maine, 

 the Labrador coast, or Lake Superior; from the 

 casting the menhaden bait into the boisterous ocean 

 for striped bass, to the trolling amid the Thousand 

 Isles of the St. Lawrence for the ugly and powerful 

 mascallonge ; from the capture of the noble salmon 

 to that of the spirited black bass. In fact, there is 

 so much and so good fishing everywhere, that it is dif- 

 ficult to give a preference or lay out any specific 

 directions. You may go by railroad to Cape Vin- 

 cent, and thence by steamboat to Clayton or Alexan- 

 dria bay, and fish the St. Lawrence; or take the 

 ocean steamer from Boston to Eastport, and thence 



