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a row-boat and what is known as the trolling spoon, a 

 piece of tin wheeling around a pair of hooks. 

 Sometimes feathers are tied around the shank of the 

 hooks, and while the outside or face of the tin has its 

 natural shining color, the back is sometimes made red, 

 sometimes black or copper colored, and po forth. "We 

 prefer the trolling spoon without feathers for mascallonge, 

 but we often use a double gang of hooks and put a piece 

 of the throat of the fish on the lower pair. Then if the 

 fish strikes and does not hook himself, he gets a taste of 

 food and will often come again. In case minnow is used 

 either for mascallonge or pickerel, it is fastened on a gang 

 of small hooks that are thrust into its back and sides so 

 as to bend it in order that it may turn round and round 

 in the water, " spin well" as it is technically termed. 



PICKEREL AND YELLOW PERCH. The most artistic 

 way of taking pickerel in summer is with the spear, but 

 they are generally taken with a spoon and line bait. 

 They furnish poor food and worse sport, as a general 

 thing, and are not entitled to any law. They are better 

 to use as food for black bass than for man. During win- 

 ter they and perch are caught through the ice in a way 

 to furnish a good deal of amusement. A number of 

 holes are cut through the ice some distance apart, and 

 two sticks tacked together in the shape of a cross are laid 

 across each hole. The longest part of the cross reaches 

 over to the ice on both sides, but the other piece is too 

 short to strike the edges. To one end of the latter the 

 line is made fast, and as soon as a fish bites his jerk raises 

 the other end, which can be seen at some distance, and 

 may be decorated with a tiny flag. The fisherman is 

 kept running from one to another, and as he has from 

 twenty-five to fifty lines fishing all the while, he is busy 

 if fish are at all plentiful. A similar method of fishing 



