Fishing in North Carolina. 



To give an idea of the abundance of black 

 bass in the waters of eastern North Carolina, I 

 noted in the latter part of November or early 

 December an item in the Bayboro (N. 0.) 

 Sentinel recording the fact that a negro of that 

 town had gone out one day, and with his hook 

 and line caught black bass that he sold for more 

 than $5. I know it to be a fact that in a pond 

 near Norfolk (known as Smith's Lake), on the 

 Norfolk & Southern Railway, are taken bass 

 varying from half a pound to seven or eight 

 pounds in weight; and so numerous are the 

 fishes in the lake that it has been necessary for 

 the owners to put a limit to the number a fisher- 

 man is allowed to catch. This limit is twenty- 

 five. 



"Matamuskeet Lake, the largest lake in North 

 Carolina (fourteen miles long, seven miles 

 wide), occupying a considerable part of Hyde 

 County, furnishes splendid sport with rod and 

 line. The most highly prized fish there caught 

 is the white perch, which is exceedingly abun- 

 dant, and reaches a large size ; the yellow perch, 

 also abundant, the blue bream, found in large 



