ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Author Frying Pickerel in Camp, Frontispiece 



Facing Page 



How TO Identify a Pike - - - - - 37 i/ 



A Study of Heads - 42 ^ 



Shore Casting for River Pickerel - - - 52 



Some Casting Tackle _ - - . « (^S 



A Pair of Great Pike - - - - - - 82 



Some of the Author's Pike Rods - - - 96 '^ 



Spoons - - - - - - • - -112 



A Compact Casting Outfit - - - - 112 



An Ice Outfit for Great Pike - - - - 118 



a 44-pound muskellunge - - - - i38 



Spawning a Chautauqua Muskellunge - - 158 ^ 



Heads of Pike, Pickerel, and Hybrids - - 186 



