Fishing in North Carolina. 



cation between yellow and black water, not only 

 the quantity but the variety of fish life is easily 

 distinguishable. Probably, the proximity to 

 the ocean has ranch to do with this fact, but it 

 is well known that the character of the soil has 

 a great effect upon the propagation of fishes. 

 Water will permeate through sand much more 

 quickly than through clay, and it therefore, 

 clears sooner and consequently is less destruc- 

 tive of spawn and young fry. Therefore, fish 

 are far more plentiful in black than in yellow 

 waters. 



All the waters of this middle section abound 

 in both game and food-fish, and it is really the 

 paradise of the genuine sportsman. 



The coast section begins at the tide-head, and 

 this part of the fishy state is recognized, in 

 quantity and variety, not so much as a sports- 

 man's happy land as the home of the fishing 

 industry. So that, practically, one begins in the 

 west with hard labor at fishing for sport, goes 

 through the middle section with genuine love of 

 fishing and ample recompense, to the coast to 

 fish for quantity and dollars. 



