APPENDIX 



of the fish as sauger or sand pike (Stizostedion cana- 

 dense), a small form of the ordinary wall-eye, were it 

 not for the fins and color. A careful examination in- 

 stantly disclosed how un-wall-eye-like they were, 

 going to prove how easily any careless observer might 

 be fooled as to the identity of a specimen. 



You who have read the preceding pages of this book 

 know how similar the pickerel and great pike are in 

 habits, therefore you are not surprised to learn that 

 artificial hybrids have been produced, and will not 

 be surprised if some time you take a great pike or a 

 pickerel differing in squamation from any other fish 

 on the string. 



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