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New Orleans and the coast of Texas, afford fine sport for 

 the angler in the taking of the redfish or spotted basse, 

 the sheepshead, the bonito, Spanish mackerel, etc. 



Charleston, and most of the cities on the Atlantic, from 

 Delaware Bay along the entire extent of the coast, and the 

 beautiful rivers that flow to the sea, afford an equal variety 

 of game for the angler, while the inland lakes and fresh-water 

 rivers are populated with the perch and the black basse. In 

 Virginia and in the mountain-streams of Georgia, the speckled 

 trout are found in abundance. From 



NEW YORK CITY 



excursions are made to that paradise of trout-anglers, Long 

 Island, which, with its numerous brooks and ponds, furnish 

 the best fly-fishing in the world ; and along the coasts, and 

 in the inlets on both sides of this beautiful island, are found 

 the striped basse, bluefish, bonito, Spanish mackerel, and 

 other salt-water inhabitants in great abundance. The coast 

 and beaches of 



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Massachusetts, and Ehode Island, throng with a multitude of 

 the same description of fishes, including the " sly and treach- 

 erous tautog ; " while the tributaries of the Connecticut River, 

 extending away up into the northern parts of Vermont, New 

 Hampshire, and Maine, together with the beautiful lakes, 

 amid the most wild and enchanting scenery, swarm with 

 trout. Moosehead, Schoodie, Profile, Echo, and other lakes, 

 the Belgrade Ponds, the Pemigewasset River, and the nu- 

 merous liquid courses that run down from the Franconia and 

 other mountains, where the almost virgin streams produce 



