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ingr stream of that grenial ana famous old angler, Thaddeus Norris. Year 

 after year this disciple of Isaac Walton was to be found upon its waters, 

 and famous were the catches that he made. He made his headquarters 

 at Henry ville with "Jim" Henry, a brave celebrity. He, too, was a ge- 

 nial, angling-loving soul; a man full of harmless eccentricities that were 

 the amusement of his countless friends, while they, at the same time, 

 made him the more lovable. Like the gentle "Thad," he has passed 

 over to the great majority, but the hostelrie which he once ran, and 

 where more fish stories were told in one season than are usually related 

 in other sections in three times that period, still exists and under the 

 care of "Jim," Jr., a worthy son of a worthy father. 



Next to Pike and Monroe counties, in point of attractiveness, are the 

 streams of Wayne. Indeed, in the opinion of many anglers, they fully 

 equal those of the two first named sections. They are more busy as a 

 rule, and are not broken into falls such as those of Pike and Monroe, 

 but they are of a more dashy character, running and tumbling over 

 .huge boulders in foam flecked stretches to the rivers. They run through 

 mountaneous regions, however, quite as picturesque as their rivals in 

 the other counties, and their trout are quite as large and game desirable 

 in qualities. Some of the leading streams of this county are the Dy- 

 berry. Little and Big Equinunk, and HoUisters. 



Passing southward towards the Bethlehem hills, in Northampton 

 county, the Monocacy and Bushkill creeks contain manj' and large sized 

 trout. 



Among the Bethlehem hills themselves and in Lehigh county are to 

 be found good fishing waters. This is especially the case at AUentown, 

 where thr-ee good sized streams, the Little Lehigh, Jordan and Cedar 

 creek run through populous regions, and partly through large open 

 meadows with scarcely a fringe of brush throughout their entire lengths. 

 Yet in spite of these drawbacks, from their sources to their mouths, they 

 swarm with trout, large, fat and full of game. This condition of affairs 

 is due to the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, one of whose hatcheries 

 is on the Little Lehigh four miles outside of AUentown, and all three 

 streams are splendid samples of what persistent stockinsr can accom- 

 plish in spite of a close proximity to built up sections and repeated 

 illegal fishing, such as unfortunately they are subjected to. 



Tioga, Bradford, Potter, and in fact all the northern central counties 

 are full of trout fishing streams. The Sinnemahoning and West Branch 

 of Pine creek are famous places. In Lycoming, the Loyalsock, on the 

 West branch of the Susquehanna, Muncy, the White Deer on the East 

 branch, Young. Woman's creek, which runs toward Lock Haven, and the 

 head waters of Clarion river in Elk countj', all afford fine fishing, although 

 they are unfortunately some of them contaminated by tanneries. 



Of one of these streams in Elk county, not far from the line of the 

 Philadelphia and Erie branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, known as 



