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baas and pickerel fishing are also to be had. The largest and most famil- 

 iar of these tributaries are the Little Bushkill, where there is also a 

 summer resort villag'e of that name, Saw Creek and Red Rock run. Be- 

 sides the Big Bushkill and its feeders, there are Tom's creek. Decher's 

 and Dingman's emptying into the Delaware ; the last, a particularly 

 picturesque stream with numerous falls, one of which makes a clean de- 

 scent of one hundred and fifty feet. Then there is the Raymondskill, 

 also known for its beautiful scenic effect, as well as for its fishing quali- 

 ties, also the Sawkill, near Milford; the Shohola, Paupach, Marthope 

 and Blooming GroTC creek, and a tributary of the Lackawaxen and others 

 in the same vicinity. But above them all probably, not so much in the 

 beauty of its surroundings, though grand in themselves, but in the 

 plentitude and size of the fish in its waters, is Bright's run, a stream in 

 the western part of the county. It is singularly free from underbrush, 

 and abounds in long reaches where the fly can be used without trouble 

 and with splendid results. 



All of the waterways mentioned take their sinuous paths through the 

 most magnificent country that can be conceived of. They abound in 

 picturesque falls, some more than a hundred feet high, and frequently 

 the waters have cut their way in boiling rapids through deep gorges 

 of great beauty. As a counter to these wild scenes deep pools and long 

 wide still waters are common, and in their dark depths, fringed by alder 

 clethra and rhododendron brush, lie trout of noble size. 



Adjoining Pike county, is Monroe, and like it, is exclusively a moun- 

 tainous region, but it has more cultivated land and less virgin forest. 

 Here, too, are many splendid fishing waters. The largest, by far, is 

 Brodhead's creek, which towards its outlet in the Delaware, cuts through 

 Stroudsburg, on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad. Its 

 largest tributary is probably Michael's creek, a stream which runs from 

 the direction of the well-known Wind Gap. Near the outlet of Brod- 

 head's, Marshall's creek empties in. This stream is not only a fine one 

 for mountain trout, but is well-known for its beautiful water falls, its 

 curious and interesting geological formations, as well as for the pleasant 

 summering village six miles from the water gap, and which receives its 

 name from the sparkling stream. 



Besides these, among other notable trout streams in Monroe county, 

 are Paradise creek, at Henryville, and further up, at Canadensis, Levis, 

 Bushkill and Middle Branch. 



Besides these, the Tobyhanna and Tunkhanna, and the waters of the 

 upper Lehigh, are very tine trouting streams, with attractive surround- 

 ings. The Tobyhanna, indeed, is reputed to have the largest trout of any 

 waterway in the state. Fish of that species are said to have been caught 

 there that weighed from four to six pounds, while there are authentic 

 instances of trout weighing three and three-quarters pounds being taken 

 therefrom with the artificial fly. The Tobyhanna was the favorite fish- 



