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be from four to twelve feet deep, where the larger 

 fish — ^pike, pickerel, and bass — take toll of both 

 surface and bottom food : frogs, minnows, various 

 bottom creepers that live and thrive near heavy 

 aquatic vegetation, flying insects and grasshoppers 

 that make their feeding-places on or about the 

 broad leaves of the water-lilies — where the pickerel 

 and bass lying below frequently rise to get food. 

 Round about the grassy weeds, at D, is a favorite 

 lair for pike, bass, and pickerel, in water from 

 four to six feet deep. They are always alert to 

 pounce on frogs, perch, larvae and adult dragon- 

 flies, also many flying and jumping grasshoppers. 

 In shallower water, where tall grass and weeds 

 grow above the surface nearer the outlet, is usually 

 good fishing with frogs, grasshoppers, and crickets. 

 If the outlet is shallow, the food taken is mostly 

 minnows. When the edge of the lake, and the bot- 

 tom for some distance out, is rocky, as at F, many 

 bottom creepers live and breed. Hellgrammites 

 and crawfish are plentiful in such a situation. 

 The same is true of the rocky plateau, 6r, if entirely 

 under water, but should it rise above the surface, 

 making a small island, minnows and frogs furnish 

 additional food. From G down to the inlet, the 

 water running gradually deeper all along from 



