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heart can wish for, fish, flesh and fowl being all within easy reach. 

 The fishing in "White Fish Bay can not be excelled for white-fish, 

 sturgeon and lake trout; while all the small streams in the back 

 country are full of that delicious game fish, the speckled trout In 

 the woods may be found partridges, squirrels, wood-ducks and other 

 small game in abundance, while the marshes and streams are the 

 favorite haunts of the duck, goose, brant, wild swan and other 

 water fowl. Those mighty nimrods who desire large game can find 

 both deer and bear in considerable numbers at the proper season, 

 and at times the latter become so numerous and bold that the hunt- 

 ers, unless experienced and skillful, are liable to find the tables 

 turned upon them by an enraged and slightly wounded bruin. The 

 shores of Ba de Noquette is particularly mentioned as the haunt of 

 large game. 



Diverging from the main line the sportsman, especially'it^he en- 

 joys social life at a Summer Resort, will do well to cast his lines in 

 GREEN LAKE, which is but twenty miles west of Fond du Lac, 

 on a branch of the C. & N. W. Ry. This lake is noted for its excel 

 lent fish, the black bass especially. In the vicinity, all kinds of 

 small game is plentiful. Puckaway Lake, a few miles west of 

 Green Lake, is celebrated as one of the few places in America 

 where canvas-back ducks are found 



The Menominee and Bois Brule Rivers formerly were the great- 

 est game haunts in the country. Even now this section furnishes 

 fine sport for the hundreds who go there every year. The C. & N. 

 W. Ry. have a branch leaving the main line at Powers, a station 

 near Escanaba, for the Menominee Iron District, which will carry 

 the sportsman right into the heart of these favored hunting grounds, 

 passing en route Sturgeon Falls Little and Big Quinnesec Falls, etc. 



