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CHAPTER XIX, 
PERCH, 
Omnivorous instincts of Perch—Natural and artificial baits—Spinning, 
Jy-fishing. Live baiting, ‘ paternostering’ and ‘roving.’ Worm- 
fishing in lakes, ponds, and rivers. Spawning season. 
The Pope or Ruffe. 
THOUGH fishing for Perch properly belongs to—indeed 
heads—this division of my subject, yet by its habits of 
feeding and the methods of angling employed for its 
capture, it might justly claim honourable mention both 
under the category of fly-fishing, and, taking the word 
in its widest sense, of trolling also. Thus, for example, 
in the great lakes Perch will often take a spun Minnow or 
a bright fly in preference to any other baits, whilst both 
in laké and river the deadly qualities of a live Minnow or 
small Gudgeon are well known to all Perch fishers. 
In the case of lake-spinning for Perch it would seem 
that the usual rule in regard to the superiority of natural 
over artificial baits is reversed. Whether from the 
greater facility with which small artificial baits are pro- 
curable, or from some other cause, I have certainly 
caught and seen caught, far more Perch by the arti- 
