THE AMERICAN TROUT. 39 



be the best fisherman in that neighborhood. A person 

 residing near a stream, and having fished it from infancy, 

 and acquainted with its every pool, has an immense 

 advantage over a stranger ; bnt there was only one coun- 

 tryman ever beat me trout-fishing, and he, after taking 

 me to the stream, slipped off and waded it down ahead 

 of me. 



All the streams that, taking their rise in or near this 

 State, flow into the Delaware or Susquehanna, are filled 

 with trout; the Tobyhanna, the Bushkill, Broadhead's 

 Creek and a thousand others, that the Erie and Lacka- 

 wanna railroads now make' easy of access. While Hamil- 

 ton County, Essex, the region of the Adirondacks, Clinton 

 County with its Chateaugay and Chazy Lakes, and the 

 Saranac River, and Franklin County with its innumera- 

 ble ponds, offer all the sport that the heart of man can 

 desire. All the streams of New England, especially in 

 the neighborhood of the White Mountains, are filled 

 with small trout ; while the State of Maine, in Moose- 

 head Lake, the Kennebec, and its other fine rivers and 

 lakes, affords the finest brook trout-fishing in the world. 



The angler may, therefore, seek his darling close to 

 his own summer-house, or may drop in at any of the 

 many well kept taverns on the south side of Loog 

 Island, where he will find every comfort and most of 

 the luxuries of the day, will meet other enthusiastic 

 fishermen, who will relate varied and interesting expe- 

 riences, and exchange views and fancies with him, 

 and will prove themselves, if real fishermen, the most 

 obliging and unselfish gentlemen in the world ; or he 

 may seek the lonely hotel at Lake Pleasant or Moose- 



