380 



AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



ambition of lady anglers to join their husbands and to get 

 the biggest Pike or Mascalonge in the camp, have all told 

 against the genus lucius. Any angler, man or woman, who 

 has ever fought a ten-pound lucius, and landed him, is proud 

 of the record. Such anglers don't call them snakes. 



It was not my intention to say anything about the cook- 

 ing of the Pike, but my wife, who is by far my best camping 

 companion in many a fishing trip, and who, woman-like, 

 "knocks the biggest persimmons" when we are fishing, says: 

 "You take the jacket off that long-face and I will give you a 

 treat." We get the treat — baked Pike — the concomitants 

 being some water, some butter, some pepper, and salt, and a 

 dash of vinegar at some stage of the cooking. Yum! it's a 

 dish fit for the gods! 



