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fish." Any bungler can catch small ones, hence I con- 

 sider them unworthy a good angler's notice, and as such 

 I do not include them in my comments beyond stating 

 that I have always found small game fish extremely 

 erratic in disposition, eagerly seizing anything edible 

 without regard to time or place. In fact, similar to 

 all smaller members of any family fishy or otherwise 

 unformed in character, consequently irregular in 

 behavior and possessing no settled habits from which 

 to deduce data of value. 



The best evening fishing during the hotter months 

 of the year is among the lily pads on the western 

 shore, north of Graham's Hotel, using a medium-sized 

 frog as bait. There is no better water in the lake 

 for good all-round pickerel fishing than that on the 

 southern shore, in the deepish water just outside the 

 fringe of bass weeds. There is excellent bass ground 

 in the water just outside the rush line on the eastern 

 shore; fishing the various depths of water according 

 to the temperature on a warm day in the rushes and 

 on a chilly day in the deeper water. 



I used to fish Long Lake with old Peter Quincy. 

 Peter used to row me, and probably he knew more fishy 

 spots in the lake than any other man living; in fact, 

 it was entirely owing to his good generalship that I 

 used to make the big catches I did. In his younger 

 days Peter had followed barbering, and away back 

 in the fifties found himself in a small Western min- 

 ing town where, while being shaved in the principal 

 barber's shop of the place, the eternal loquacity of 

 the man who shaved him caused him to think that 

 a deaf and dumb barbering establishment with a 

 few other needful modifications would prove a paying 

 venture. 



Within a week he had carried his idea into exe- 

 cution, and his employes, in consideration of extra 

 salary, were solemnly sworn to converse only in the deaf 

 and dumb alphabet, and under no consideration what- 

 ever to speak a word to the customers. Peter him- 



