Superior Fishing / Or, the Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States

The Celebrated Sporting Works OF ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT. I. The Game Fish of the North. II. Superior Fishing. III. The Game Birds of the North. ⁂ All published uniform with this volume, handsomely bound in cloth, price $2.00. Sent free by mail on receipt of price, $2.00 , BY Carleton, Publisher, New York.

OR, THE STRIPED BASS, TROUT, AND BLACK BASS Of the Northern States. EMBRACING FULL DIRECTIONS FOR DRESSING ARTIFICIAL FLIES WITH THE FEATHERS OF AMERICAN BIRDS; AN ACCOUNT OF A SPORTING VISIT TO LAKE SUPERIOR, ETC., ETC., ETC. By ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT, AUTHOR OF “THE GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA,” “THE GAME BIRDS OF OUR NORTHERN COASTS,” ETC.
NEW YORK: Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway. M DCCC LXV. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by GEO. W. CARLETON, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER, Caxton Building, Centre St., N. Y.




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 inland States, with the reservation of certain restricted localities, produce few varieties, and with a single exception, inferior kinds of fish. Throughout that vast region west of Pennsylvania, bordering on the great lakes, and stretching westward to the Rocky Mountains and northward to the Canadian boundary, as well as the centre of British America not communicating immediately with the sea or the immense bays of the Arctic Territory, there can be found but one, or at the most two kinds of fish that are worthy of the attention of the epicure or the sportsman. It is true that savage pickerel, immense mascallonge, and gigantic cat-fish lie in wait amid long weeds, and embedded in deep mud, a terror to their smaller brethren and a prize to the unrefined fisherman who looks to the profit to be derived from their heavy carcases; and that other coarse and ill-shapen creatures are taken in the net; but the only fishes that the true angler can regard as objects of sport are the pike-perch, and the black bass.