THE PERCHES 



fly with avidity, and fight hard. In the upper waters 

 of the Susquehanna River, the resident anglers, as 

 a rule, catch them with feathered lures, of which 

 the " turkey fly " seem to be the most alluring. 

 The fish, however, will take natural baits of any 

 description, provided they are fresh. 



The author is indebted to Mr. E. D. T. Cham- 

 bers, of Quebec, for the following very interesting 

 notes on the pike-perch : 



Ever since I took my first dore with fly tackle, 

 now some years ago, I have wondered more and 

 more at the comparatively small amount of atten- 

 tion paid to this splendid game fish by anglers. In 

 default of salmon, trout, bass, and maskinonge, the 

 sport supplied by the pike-perch, at all events in 

 cold northern waters, is by no means to be despised. 

 The experience of taking this fish on the fly is one 

 that hundreds of fly fishermen in America have yet 

 to enjoy. I had fished most of the more accessible 

 waters of the Lake St. John country for several 

 years, before dreaming of catching Stizostedion 

 vitreum, in this manner, when, in the summer of 

 1896, I happened to be whipping beautiful Lac 

 des Aigles for trout. This pretty body of water, 

 which very few white men have ever visited, is 

 many miles north of Lake St. John, into which 

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