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particularly being favorite resorts; and whenever 
a wreck can be located on the Atlantic coast, good 
sheepshead fishing will be found. There are 
several such ocean rookeries between Newport 
and Delaware Bay which have become famous. 
I have had excellent fishing near Old Point Com- 
fort, where I have taken sheepshead from the 
wharf, and at Beaufort. The fish has never been 
seen north of Cape Cod, and some localities 
which knew it well several years ago, know it no 
more. JI was informed by an old fisherman at 
Fisher’s Island that when he was a boy sheeps- 
head were plentiful, but faithful fishing there failed 
to obtain a rise; though not many miles away, 
on the south shore of Long Island, the sheeps- 
head was the common fish. I once accompanied 
a party up the beach, near Cape May, who waded 
out into the breakers, which were not very high, 
and made long casts out over the supposed loca- 
tion of an old wreck, some exciting sport being 
the result. The fishes were large and extremely 
gamy, making an exhilarating fight, rendered the 
more exciting by the capsizing of an old angler 
by a sea as he was about to land his fish. 
The oyster-beds of the Chesapeake are favorite 
localities for sheepshead, and I have taken the 
