PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKE-E 

 on the Kankakee and you will never get tired of 

 it. One time on the Kankakee we were out 

 fishing for pike and in those days we had no 

 such fishing outfits as are used at the present 

 time, such as skinners, trolling hook or Johnson 

 grabbers or Hildebrandt's spinner and many 

 other patented fishing hooks and artificial baits. 

 We had to make our lines and hooks in those 

 days and in fishing for pike or pickerel in the 

 Kankakee we had to have strong lines and stout 

 hooks and bait with a big finn of one of the fish 

 caught. If you haven't such a bait use a large 

 frog or minnow and keep it moving, as a pick- 

 erel seldom bites at a still bait but always takes 

 it on the wing and go for it like lightning and 

 splashes v/ater in your face like a flying sea 

 horse. Then we would pull them in out of the 

 water. One day we caught nine pickerel that 

 measured altogether fifteen feet. We cooked 

 them all up for supper and with bread and but- 

 ter and coffee the nine of us ate them all up and 

 all of us said it beat the world and all the rest of 



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