SUPERIOR FISHING. 



GENERAL EEMARKS. 



Although the shores of our northern coasts, both 

 along the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, abound in 

 numberless varieties of the finny tribe, and myriads 

 of striped bass, cod, mackerel, tautog, herring, shad 

 and blue-fish in the Northern States, and salmon, 

 sea-trout, and capelin in the British Provinces, visit 

 us in their season; the Middle States, unless in a 

 few limited localities, produce few varieties, and 

 generally inferior kinds of fish. Throughout the 

 Valley of the Ohio, and that vast region west of 

 Pennsylvania, south of the great lakes and Michigan, 

 stretching westward to the Rocky Mountains and 

 northward to tho Canadian boundary, as well as the 

 centre of British America not communicating im- 

 mediately with the sea or the immense bays of the 

 Arctic Territory, there can be found but two, or at 

 the most three kinds of fish that are worthy of the 

 attention of the epicure or the sportsman. It is true 

 that savage pickerel, immense mascallouge, and gi- 

 gantic cat-fish lie in wait amid long weeds, and em- 



