SUPERIOR FISHING. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



ALTHOUGH the shores of our northern coasts, both 

 along the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, abound in 

 numberless varieties of the finny tribe, and myriads 

 of striped bass, cod, mackerel, tautog, herring, shad 

 and blue-fish in the Northern States, and salmon, 

 sea-trout, and capelin in the British Provinces, visit 

 us in their season ; the inland States, with the reserva- 

 tion of certain restricted localities, produce few 

 varieties, and with a single exception, inferior kinds 

 offish. Throughout that vast region west of Penn- 

 sylvania, bordering on the great lakes, and stretch- 

 ing westward to the Rocky Mountains and north- 

 ward to the Canadian boundary, as well as the cen- 

 tre of British America not communicating imme- 

 diately with the sea or the immense bays of the 

 Arctic Territory, there can be found but one, or at 

 the most two kinds of fish that are worthy of the 

 attention of the epicure or the sportsman. It is true 

 that savage pickerel, immense mascallonge, and gi- 

 gantic cat-fish He in wait amid long weeds, and eni- 

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