10 Fishing in North Carolina. 



In the same section there is Scuppemong, 

 Black, Bartrams and White lakes which afford 

 fairly good sport. Bass, jack and perch also 

 are abundant in White Lake, Bladen County, 

 and Waccamaw, in Columbus. The cat-fish 

 being privileged passes all boundaries and ia 

 found everyvs'here, even if he has to make use 

 of a passing cloud as a common carrier. 



In Eastern North Carolina everything is 

 fishy, men, women and ducks ; and sport degen- 

 erates into slaughter. 



The middle section is well dotted with mill 

 ponds and traversed by fish streams. Within 

 easy reach of Raleigh by the Ealeigh and South- 

 port Railroad are Myatts, Rays, Stewarts and 

 Byrds ponds, while the many ponds and fishy 

 streams of Wake, Johnston, Nash, Wilson and 

 Wayne counties are easily accessible from vari- 

 ous railroad points. In fact North Carolina is 

 the fishiest State in the Union, its climate ia 

 more equable than North, West, or South and 

 the people as hospitable as anywhere else on 

 earth. 



Probably the most notable fish stream in mid- 



