1 62 Bass, Pike, and Perch 



Owing to its nocturnal habits, the hours from 

 about sunset until dark are the most favorable. 

 Night fishing is also quite successful should any 

 one care for it. As a matter of experiment I 

 fished Pewaukee Lake, in Wisconsin, one moon- 

 lit evening in summer, many years ago, in com- 

 pany with three other anglers, there being two to 

 a boat. In a few hours twenty-two were landed 

 to each boat, weighing from three to four pounds 

 each. This was my only experience in fishing 

 for pike-perch at night, but I have known many 

 others to practise it very successfully. 



Fly-fishing is most successful from about sun- 

 down until dark, or later, and on cloudy days also 

 during the afternoon. Two flies on a four-foot 

 leader may be used, one of which should be a 

 light-colored one, as the coachman, or white 

 miller ; the other may be any of the hackles or the 

 stone fly, oriole, gray drake, polka, professor, or 

 Montreal. The same instructions concerning fly- 

 fishing for black-bass may be profitably followed 

 for the pike-perch, allowing the flies to sink two 

 or three feet after each cast, though it is a more 

 uncertain fish to locate, being much given to 

 roaming in its search for food at different 

 seasons. 



