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in pound-nets set in the deepest water. About Sandusky and vicinity, 

 like the Muskellunge, they are said to be rather rare, though a few taken 

 in winter around Put-in-Bay Island are there regarded as residents of cold, 

 deep water. Above Cleveland they are not known to the fishermen, but 

 in the vicinity of Ashtabula, considerable numbers are sometimes taken in 

 spring — one or two hundred pounds at a haul of a pound-net. On the 

 south shore of Lake Erie, very few are taken in pounds, and it is there 

 thought that they keep constantly in deep water and seldom approach the 

 shore. They are very salable and much sought after, but apparently 

 nowhere abundant." 



Among the Islands dotting the southwestern part of Lake Superior, in- 

 cluding the Apostle Islands, Sand, York, and Rock Islands, and others, 

 Muskellunge are caught in small quantities in the pound-nets. The Muskel- 

 lunge is occasionally caught in the small bays indenting the shore south 

 of Keweenaw Point as far as Huron Bay, and w'ith it a large and much 

 lighter-colored fish that may possibly be Esox Iiiciiis. This latter is not 

 well known among the fishermen, but Mr. Edgarton says he has often 

 noticed it, and has remarked that the general aspect was different from 

 that of the Muskellunge. On the fishing grounds at the north end of 

 Green Bay this is a rare fish, only half a dozen or so being taken each 

 year. When it occurs it is found at any and at no particular point. Not 

 a single specimen of this fish was taken by Mr. Nelson in ten year's fish- 

 ing in the Cedar River district, and Mr. Everland in thirty-six years has 

 not taken half a dozen. Tliey are reported of occasional occurrence in 

 the Monomonee River; but are not found in deep nets far out in the bay. 



Lower down on the west coast of Green Bay, from Longtail Point to 

 Peshtigo Point, this fish occurs everywhere, but nowhere in abundance. 

 A specimen was taken at Washington Island in 1866 that weighed forty- 

 four pounds. The fishermen of this stretch of coast-line pronounce it 

 Musk-ka-lone. At Green Bay City this fish is caught frequently weighing 

 forty pounds. It is common at this point, /. c. the southern end of Green 

 Bay. Ascending the eastern shore of Green Bay as far as St. Martin's 

 Island the Muskellunge is very rare, being known by name only to a great 

 many of the fishermen. Following the western shore of Lake Michigan 

 southward from Port des Mortes on the north, as far south as Manitowoc, 

 this fish is rare. At Jacksonport two have been taken in seven years. At 

 Two Rivers only one has ever been recorded, viz., in 1878. At Manito- 



