Forest and Stream, May 9, 1878

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - FishingSea -- Finfish - Catch : Shad and herring

MARYLAND -- Baltimore, May 6. -- Numerous fishing parties are embarking daily on trips down the Chesapeake. Several visited Cobb's Island during the past week, and report the sport very good and active. Gudgeon are still being caught by the thousands on the Patapsco and other surrounding streams. Nearly eight thousand people visited the Relay, B. & O. R.R. in one week gudgeon fishing. A party of six of us went down last Saturday and caught thirty dozen in four hours, but the season for them will soon be over now. The first crab of the season was caught at the Ferry Bar last Friday by a little boy. Old fishermen say the coming season is going to be a very good one, and already there are lots of elegant perch coming to the markets, and last week I saw the finest fresh shad in our markets I have ever seen.

TRAYMORE.