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mg Grove Park Association. It nestles high up on the sides of one of 

 several isolated mountains of the Knob group of the Pocono range and 

 covers 447 acres. It is kidney-shaped and in many places is said to 

 be more than seventy feet deep. Its bottom is covered with huge 

 boulders, some fully as large as a good sized house, the remains of the 

 glacial epoch. In this water and among these boulders lie black bass 

 in countless numbers and of prodigious size, making it emphatically the 

 best resort for this species of fishing in the state. This lake was stocked 

 many years ago by some gentlemen before it came into the possession 

 of the Blooming Grove Park Association, and before they preserved it 

 it was visited by illegal fishermen and others to such an extent that it 

 was rapidly becoming worthless. 



The Blooming Grove Park Association, composed mainly of New York 

 sportsmen, own or controls upward of 20,000 acres of the wild land in 

 Pike county, where they maintain a rigid fish and game preserve, 

 though they are by no means illiberal towards sportsmen who desire 

 reasonable privileges. More than a quarter of a million dollars have 

 been expended in this county in fitting up and maintaining this great 

 preserve, and it has been of much benefit to the hardy woodmen who 

 live thereabouts. Last year alone over $5,457 were spent in improve- 

 ments. Comfortable club houses have been erected, and a large fish 

 hatchery is maintained to keep well stocked the many trout streams and 

 the lakes within the borders of the association property. At this hatch- 

 ery, more than half a million trout fry are annually incubated. 

 During the year 1892, according to the score books of the members, 

 3,961 trout were taken, and 2,323 black bass killed. 



From the top of High Knob mountain, one of the group in the Bloom- 

 ing Grove Park Association's preserves, on a clear summer day, no less 

 than thirteen natural mountain lakes are to be seen, glistening in the 

 sun-light like gems of pearl in settings of emerald. From the summit 

 of this mountain a glorious view is obtained, though anyone venturing 

 to make the ascent had better be provided with a bottle of water and a 

 club for rattlesnakes, as there is none of the first and plenty of the latter 

 after beginning the rough climb. 



It is singular that none of the mountain lakes of Pike, Monroe or 

 Wayne counties have trout in them except where artificially planted, 

 for all the streams running into or from them are filled with this great 

 game fish. Pike or pickerel and yellow perch, catfish or bullheads and 

 sunfish are the fishes indigenous to their waters. This is stranger when 

 it is known that one or two lakes, notably Perch pond or Lake Belle, 

 after having been stocked with brook trout, did well. 



One of the best stocked bodies of water in the county is Silver lake, 

 near Dingman's Ferry. This enchanting sheet is of considerable size, 

 with water as limped as dew and very deep. Originally, it contained 

 little else than pike, but now, through the Pennsylvania Fish Oommis- 



