38 Fishing in North Carolina. 



I have fished this pond several times, and have 

 had both kinds of luck. ' I caught three bream 

 below the dam one day, but never got one in the 

 pond; and I do not think they patronize this 

 tributary of the ISTeuse to any extent. 



I do not knovr how Taylor's pond, over in 

 ISTash, is now, but I spent a week there some 

 years ago and the fishing was not good. It is 

 on Moccasin Creek, a good fishing stream by 

 reputation. 



Richardson-Heely-Strickland pond, on Buff- 

 alo, over in Johnston, twenty miles from Kal- 

 eigh, is a long, narrow, deep pond, full of fish; 

 but the bass are so wise as to be hard to come at. 



There are plenfy of them and very big ones 

 but they are too particular about the method 

 of feeding. I know I never caught one there, 

 and I have heard other fihsermen admit the 

 same thing. Yet I have had rare luck with 

 speckled perch, large hard biters, not white 

 perch; and the "red belly" perch fishing there 

 is fine in June and July. I did not meet any 

 jack nor red fins at this place. The fishing is 

 free, and. good boats can be hired by the day 



