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for the moderate sum of 25 cents. In fact this 

 is the only free water fishing of any value that 

 I know' of within fifty miles of my starting 

 point. 



Penny's or Yates' pond, five miles out, has 

 some very big university educated bass which 

 are apt to stay there ; but the fishing is otherwise 

 not good. Gourd-seed perch and shad roaches 

 or shiners are plentiful. The pond has been 

 really fished to death and restocking has been 

 sedulously avoided. 



As I intimated, "other good ponds have been 

 permitted to go uncared for, or else depleted 

 through the vandalism of nonsportmen. It is a 

 hard matter to own a mill pond where the 

 people in the vicinity feel they have a right to 

 catch a living out of it. 



I have never cared much for river fishing, and 

 less for creek fishing. First of all I want the 

 water to stay still, while I may not expect the 

 fish to do so, and I am "afeard" of snakes on 

 land but not on water, unless I take pe-ru-na. 



There ought to be good fishing at Milbumie 

 pond, on Neuse Kiver. There was good fishing 



