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drifting in a boat, using fine tackle and making long 

 casts, casting a minnow in the more open stretches of 

 water and frogs for evening fishing in the lily pads. 

 There are several hotels in the immediate vicinity of 

 the lake, most of which send buses to meet the trains 

 at Antioch. There are plenty of boats, but the angler 

 had better take his own bait as the supply at- the hotels 

 is uncertain. 



Even to an experienced angler Lake Marie would 

 prove a deceiving piece of water. There is so much 

 apparently good fishing ground, bearing those unmis- 

 takable fishy signs by which likely spots are ordinarily 

 located in the shape of bass and pickerel weeds, lily 

 pads, with favorable formations of bottom and re- 

 quired depth of water that unless a man is thoroughly 

 posted or knows the water he can waste much valua- 

 ble time in fishing those spots which, although of an 

 inviting aspect, are barren of fish. 



The points marked on the chart are the best spots to 

 fish; and where the angler's time is limited he will find 

 it best to fish one of these points, and thence row to 

 another without wasting time on the intervening 

 stretches of water. The best bass ground is at those 

 spots marked A, B, C, D, E, F and G. The largest 

 fishes are generally caught in the bass weeds and 

 rushes of the deepish stretch of water at C, and the 

 spots B and G are exceptionally fine yielding pieces of 

 water for bass. 



The pickerel hole just outside the channel is the best 

 spot of any in the lake for pickerel. Both sides of the 

 channel leading into Grass Lake are favorite resorts for 

 pickerel also, particularly at those spots where weed 

 beds and rush patches are found in the middle of the 

 channel. 



I recollect some four years ago fishing this channel 

 with Colonel Budd of San Francisco. We caught 

 seventeen pickerel, all good-sized*fishes. The, Colonel 

 photographed them, hanging the fishes up in a row by 



