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GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



a day on the fishing ^ound, and return by the evening boat, reaching home by 

 six or seven o'clock next morning, being absent only an afternoon and a day. 



The Delaware branch of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail- 

 road also runs to Still Pond, a station four miles from Betterton. The train 

 leaves Philadelphia at 8 a.Vi., and makes the trip in four hours. Still Pond is also 

 the Post Office, Betterton having only a few scattering dwellings, and no Post 

 Office- Thomas Crew keeps the house (not a hotel and without a bar,) and can 

 probably accommodate twenty guests, for whom he provides bountifully. His 

 rate is $1.50 per day, and boats with captain and bait $3 per day. The favorite 

 tishing ground is about two miles from the house, and the water there is about 

 thirty to forty feet deep. The ebb current runs about two and a half miles an 

 hour, and the flood current about two miles an hour, or with about one half the 

 force of the current in the Delaware, hence a ten or twelve ounce dipsey is heavy 

 ei>ough for a bow or hand line, and two ounces for a rod line. A bass rod nine 

 feet long, with multiplying reel, is the proper rod. The perch bite better at the 

 turn of the tide— an hour before and after each, the low water and young flood 

 being the best. 



The tide tables of the Chesapeake are published in the NauticM Ahnanac. 

 High water at Betterton, would be about half an houi earlier than at Turkey 

 Point. 



It is not amiss to take some bait along—worm, clam, or shrimp, or a good dip 

 minnow net. If a hand line is used, glove fingers are necessary, else any but the 

 toughest hand will give out before a day's fishing is over. Spesutia I^and fur- 

 nishes excellent duck shooting. 



Montgomery County — 



Barnesville. Black bass fishing in the Potomac, with excellent shooting. 

 Reached via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 



The Great Falls 0/ the Potomac are located fourteen miles above Washing- 

 ton, and seven miles from Rockville, on the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore 

 and Ohio Railroad. The route is from Washington to Georgetown, thence via 

 canal : fare fifty cents, or via stage, seventy-five cents, to the fishing grounds. 

 The Potomac has here three falls, aggregating a descent of eighty feet, within a 

 distance of a few rods. Big bass, little bass, rock, and striped bass abound, and 

 afford excellent sport. At the Cornelia Hotel, Messrs. Garrett and Mans, proprie- 

 tors, board may be obtained, $2 per day. 



Prince George County- 

 Upper Marlboro. Fine shooting: on the swamp and marshes adjacent to the 



Patuxent River. Ortolans, reed birds, partridges, ducks, etc., and other game 



birds. Reached via the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, or by drive from 



Washington. Skiffs and pushers are readily obtained, and the sport is always 



good. The grounds are within three miles of Marlboro. 



Muirkirk Furnace. Snipe and quail shooting good in the vicinity. Reached 



via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 



Nottingham. On the marshes of the Patuxent River, excellent shooting is to 



be had (See Upper Marlboro), Mr. John Maccubbin, keeps the very comfortable 



and home-like mn in the village. 



Ste. Mary's County— 



Of the best known resorts on the Potomac may be mentioned Colton's, Leon- 

 ardtown, Blackstone's Island, Piney Point, Marshall's, and Point Lookout, the 

 latter a point of land at the mouth of the Potomac, with a splendid beach fronting 

 on Chesapeake Bay. The attractions at all these palaces are boating, fishing, bath- 

 ing, crabbing, and a fare composed almost exclusively of fish and oysters. Save 

 at Piney Pomt, the terms are very moderate — $z per day, $10 per week, and $30 

 to .$35 per month. 



Leonardtown. Duck shooting and good fishing. Reached by boat on the 

 Potomac River. Hotel %-z per day, $10 per week, $30 per month. 



Point Lookout. Fair fishing may be found nere, including sheepshead. 

 Reached via steamer on the Potomac, .one hundred and thirteen miles from 

 Washington. Board same as at Leonardtown. 



MarshalCs^ two miles below Piney Point, is a favorite summer resort for 

 pleasure seekers. The fishing includes sheepshead, white pepch, rock, tayior, 

 spot and croakers. The shooting is for paxiridge, duck and goose. Marshall's 

 IS one hundred miles from Washington, reached via Potomac steamers, and has 



