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the most successful — I nearly said only — method is 

 to fish for bait with a hook and line. Probably the 

 most taking bait is a small bit of angle worm, though 

 bait minnows can be taken with an artificial fly. By 

 the way, the taking of bait minnows with a 2>^- 

 ounce fly-rod is not a poor sort of sport in itself. More 

 than once I have gone after bait minnows in the morn- 

 ing with my lightest mountain-trout rod and become 

 so enamored of the sport that I have fished for 

 minnows all day long. A creek with deep pools is 

 almost certain to offer chubs six to ten inches long, 

 and the one provided with a sufficiently large pail will 

 have little trouble in capturing a dozen or two in 

 short order. (I have just touched this matter here, 

 as I have in preparation a book upon live-bait fishing.) 

 Now to turn to my great-pike fishing. 



I watched over my dozen chubs with jealous care 

 while waiting for the advent of a perfect "pike day," 

 but come at last it did, as do all things for which we 

 wait long enough. I recognized "der tag" when I 

 rolled out of bed in the morning. We had been treated 

 to a thunderstorm some time during the night, and 

 when the sun came up he looked out over a rough 

 lake, while the wind chased the raveled remnants of 

 storm clouds across the sky. I hurried through my 

 breakfast, and, with that old reliable "six-foot-six" 

 bait rod, tackle-box, and pail of minnows, I was soon 

 bounding over the angry waves, for the wind had 

 cuffed them till they foamed with rage. One must 

 have a rough sea in order to secure the most remuner- 

 ative still-fishing. 



I chose my location just off a long line of weeds, a 

 lily bed, where the water was fifteen or twenty feet 

 deep, perhaps deeper. I saw to it that I selected my 

 position so that the wind would blow me off-shore. 

 Then I let go my anchor and my boat bobbed and 

 dodged at the end of her rather lengthy tether. You 

 see, if worst came to worst (which would be the crown- 

 ing of the best) I could sever my anchor cord and be 

 blown out to sea. I could get away from the anchor 



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