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Morgan\'5 Railroad and Jackson Railroad. At Miller's, the hunter or fisherman 

 fts the case may be, finds a camp, so to speak, of three or four houses, situated 

 upon a shell island of the prairie near the shore of Lake Catherine, and directly 

 upon the bayou, where ample provision is furnished— such as piroeue, decoys a 

 clean bunk, and plenty of duck, and fish, and coffee, and other consolation for the 

 mner man, all for a moderate sum ■ and at an equally modest sum can be procured 



guides. These guides are experienced in manceuverinff the pirogue across the 

 etimes angry waves of Lake Catherine, or through the intricate 'maze of a • 

 crooked, narrow bayou. Woe to him who, under ** Tom's " care, fails to kill 

 ducks at Seven Ponds, Bayous Bob, Pecan, or Cassenay, at Grand Point, or the 

 Corridors, or snipe on Frederic Burn, or Ween's Island! -Black, grey, mallard 

 canvas-back, teal, " fan-fan," ^^ bee see," ^' dos gres,'' and many varieties of 

 duck, with names peculiar to the Creole vocabulary, are found here in great num- 

 bers, from November ist to March ist. Prior thereto and after, large bags are not 

 frequent Miller s Bayou offers red fish, sheepshead, green trout, and striped 

 bass. The fare from New Orleans to Miller's Bayou is $1.50. Other favorite 

 spots near the city for teal, canvas-back and red head shooting are along the upper 

 line of Canal Street, at the Lake Swamp, and Little Lake. Twin Lakes, two 

 miles from Mdler's Bayou, is a famous place for ducks. 



I'laquemine Fafish — 



The vicinity of the mouth of the Mississippi is a resort for great numbers ol 

 ducks. Hunters there kill sometimes one thousand in a day. 



8t. tTohn JBaptist Farisli — 



Bayou De Sair, on the west shore of Lake Pontchartrain is noted for its fine 

 fishing. In the adjoining cypress swamp is good deer and bear hunting. 



St. Maro's JParish^^ 



Bayou Teche^ Irish Bend. Jack snipe, wood duck, quail, woodceck 

 shooting, 



St, Tammany FarisJi— 



Mandville is a pretty summer bathing, and winter hunting and- fishing resort 

 for New Orleans people, situated thirty miles from the city, on the north shore of 

 Lake Pontchartrain, which is crossed every day by an elegant passenger steamer. 



The game consists, along the coast, of what the French Creole citizens call the 

 erussee^ a very small bird : two varieties of the eye, somewhat larger; magnolia 

 birds, robins, snipe, woodcock, cedar birds, French and English duck, teal in 

 abundance, wild geese, Ppules iTeau and Peppeboti rail, snipe, with half a dozen 

 other less important varieties. 



The northern part of this parish, near Pearl River, is thinly inhabited, and 

 abounds in wild pine, live oak, and magnolia forests and swamps. Here large 

 numbers of deer, wild turkeys, quails, and squirrels, and occasionally a few bears 

 and wild cats are killed. 



Lake Pontchartrain is generall)-^ brackish, sometimes quite fresh from the Mis- 

 sissippi crevasses, and sometimes again quite salty. TTie fresh water streams 

 that flow into it from the pine hills, abound in yellow and red nerch, with some 

 pickerel, and not a few *' green trout" the local name for the olack bass. .It i? 

 the favorite fresh water game fish. The Tangipahoa River, twenty miles fronr 

 here, contains a species of fresh water speckled trout, and many large rock fish 

 which, like the green trout, are caught with a " bob." 



Lake Pontchartrain is a glorious fishing ground. With a crab and cast net, the 

 ang;ler can catch all the red crawfish, crabs, shrimps, and mullets he wants for 

 bait (or food) in a few moments. With these he can, from a bath house, wharf or 

 boat, catch striped bass, the famous sheepshead, redfish, sea perch, sea trout and 

 cioakers, not to mention a superior quality of speckled catfish. The fishing is 

 good all the year round, but best in the winter. Striped bass are most plentiful 

 almost all winter. Sheepshead abound at this season, but are difficult to catch 

 with a hook, from lack of proper bait. 



The redfish is quite plentiful. And he is the g^amest fish in the lake. With 

 mullet for bait and a reel, the sport of playing him is magnificent. He is the staple 

 pood salt water fish of the South, and bites well on the Gulf coast all the yeai 

 round. 



The speckled sea trout are found a couple of months In the autumn, and bit? 

 Foraciouslj' %.% any kind of bait, " bob " or fly. The croaker is a beautiful sil 



