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of our picturesque and cool mountain streams are celebrated, for brook trout; some 
of the best trout streams are in Monroe, Pike, Wayne, Columbia, Cameron, Clinton, 
Sullivan, Potter, Blair and Lycoming counties. The chief objection made by many 
fishermen to trout fishing in this state is the rather small size of the fish. Brook 
trout can be taken, according to the laws of Pennsylvania, from April 15 to July 15. 
Coxxeaut Lake, 
a beautiful and healthful summer resort, three by one and a half miles in size, is 
located in Crawford county, northwestern Pennsylvania, twelve miles from Mead- 
ville. Several steamers and a small fleet of sail and row boats ply on the waters of 
the lake ; the hotel rates are reasonable and there are good camping grounds adja¬ 
cent to it. The waters have recently been stocked. Salmon, black and yellow bass 
fishing is reported to be good. In a number of the large lakes situated in north¬ 
eastern Pennsylvania, particularly in Susquehanna and Wayne counties, bass 
and pickerel fishing is pursued with considerable success. The concluding para¬ 
graph concerning some of the principal bass fishing points on the Susquehanna 
river are taken from Spangler’s Directory. 
Safe Harbor. 
This is a small village on the Susquehanna, a short distance below the mouth of 
the Conestoga creek, ninety-one miles from Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania rail¬ 
road (via. Columbia), eighty-eight miles by the Central Division, Philadelphia, 
FISHING ON THE SUSQUEHANNA. 
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad (via Octoraro Junction), or ninety-three miles 
by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad (via Perryville). 
The hotel accommodations at this place and at all points on the Susquehanna to 
which reference will be made, are generally plain and substantial, ranging from one 
dollar to two dollars per day, and from five to eight dollars per w»ek. The usual 
charge for boat and boatman is $1.50 per day, and, presumably, includes bait; but 
