24- GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



frequented than the Adirondacks or Maine lakes, and abundantly stocked with 

 fish and game. _ . . . „ .v ^ i- » 



The '' Twins "— " Waushinee" and " Waushinine" — are on the Oonnecticut 

 Western Railroad, twelve miles east of MiUerton, which is on the Harlem road, 

 and t'fty-seven miles west from Hartford. They are on high ground, and held in 

 place by a range of hills. The Twins are **siamesed" together by a narrow 

 crooked strait, that is barely navigable in low water. Both lakes are well stocked 

 with the fish usually found in this region, and vast quantities of pickerel and 

 perch are taken from the smaller lake during the winter. The large lake— some 

 six miles in circuit— has long been famous for its fine pike (pickerel they are called 

 hereabouts), fish of five to seven pounds weight being not unusual in the bygone 

 days • but since the stocking of the waters with black bass, some years since, the 

 pike are not so plenty nor so large. The abundant supply of bass, however 

 more than makes up for it, and during the summer affords rare sport to those ex- 

 perts who know the when and the how to take them. The lakes have also been 

 stocked with land locked salmon. Close around this lake region are numerous 

 trout streams, which afford the angler fine sport; notably More Brook and 

 Bracie's brook, in Salisbury, and Bartholomew, Spurr, and Lee brooks, in Shef- 

 field, and the Sages' Ravine brook, that divides the two States. These streams 

 are hardly large enough for the fly-fisher's best efforts, though trout of two pounds 

 weight, have been taken from the Lee brook, and very good creels tull in Sages' 

 Ravine and the More Brook. 



The game in the neighborhood comprises grouse, woodcock, quail, squirrels, 

 and rabbits, mink and otter, fox, wild-cat, and woodchucks. Of ducks there are 

 the broad-bill, shell drake, whistler, buffle-head, brant, black duck, and in short 

 nearly every kind found on any fresh water, and in great abundance ; wild geese 

 are here in great numbers, and quail, woodcock and pigeons in sufficient quanti- 

 ties to insure good sport. From New York City via Harlem and Connecticut 

 Railroads, the fare is $2.80. Board at the Twin Lakes Trout Farm, Corbin's 

 Union Depot Hotel, and at Salisbury, which see. 



Chapinvilie. Good bass fishing. Route: Connecticut Western Railroad from 

 Hartford. 



Kent. The Spectacle Ponds are two lakes amid the forest on a high plain to 

 the west, and reached by a steep road. These waters have been stocked with 

 land locked salmon. Reached via the Housato'nic Railroad from Bridgeport or 

 Pittsfield. Hotel, the Kent Plains House. 



New Milford. Fine black bass fishing in the Housatonic River. Route as 

 above. Hotel, the New Miliord House. 



Salisbury. For game and fish see Canaan. The Twin Lakes are six miles 

 distant, reached via a good wagon road. Route : from Hartford via the Connec- 

 ticut Western. Hotels, Barnard House $2 ; and a large summer boarding house. 



West Norfolk. Trouting in the vicinity. Route as above. 



Winsted. Some distance above the village on a high plateau, is Long Lake, 

 which has been stocked with land locked salmon. Route: Naugatuck Railroad 

 from Bridgeport ; fare $1.85 ; or Connecticut Western Railroad from Hartford. 

 Hotels, Clarke House $2 ; Beardsley House. 



Litchfield is one of the favorite quiet and unfashionable summer resorts of the 

 State. Bantam Lake, reached by a pleasant drive, is a beautiful sheet of water, 

 full of many kinds of fish , and is much visited by the summer tourists and pleas- 

 ure seekers who resort to Litchfield. Take the Naugatuck Railroad from 

 Bridgeport. 



JTcMJ X/ondon County — 



Niantic. The striped bass in the river afford excellent sport The fishing at 

 this point is the more attractive, as it is done from a bridge not twenty yards from 

 the hotel, on the flood tide, and from below the railroad bridge at the ebb, and by 

 trawling at night. The current is very rapid, and from the bridge, the line 

 sweeps the whole width of the river at this point of the channel. The hotel is 

 comfortable, and the fishing ground within call of the dinner-bell. Blood Point, 

 one mile from Niantic. is a famous resort forfishing for large striped bass. Nian- 

 tic is six miles from New London, is reached from East Lyme, nnd is one mile 

 from that place. The Niantic River, two-and-a-half miles long, connects the bay 

 with a lake which receives the waters of several fine trout streams, so tiiat the 

 river and bay form a natural breeding and spawning ^ound for bass. There 

 are two hotels, one at Block Point on the East Lyme side, and the other on the 

 opposite side of the river at Bloody Point- Niantic Bay is three miles wide, and 



