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may be followed in summer by having a flat float of a 

 piece of ordinary board with a stick run up and down 

 through the center and weighted at the bottom. The 

 line is fastened to the upper end, that half being painted 

 white, and a bite reverses the position and shows the 

 lower half, which is painted red. As pickerel do not 

 always pouch the bait when they first strike it, the line 

 may be coiled on the float and slightly hitched in a notch 

 so that it will run off at first and give the pickerel a 

 chance to move to a quiet spot for his deliberate meal. For 

 this fishing, live bait is needed, minnows being the best, 

 and should be fastened by running the hook just under 

 the skin near the back fin, so as not to injure them. If 

 the line is tied to the leg of a tame goose, there will be 

 seen considerable excitement when this new sort of angler 

 strikes a large fish. Pickerel are also taken in small 

 ponds, where they love to lie around the water lilies and 

 long grass, by fishing for them with a long rod and 

 small fish. The bait is tossed here and there into the 

 openings among the weeds, is twitched up and down in 

 a way to somewhat similate the action of a living fish. 

 When a fish bites he is unceremoniously hauled out. 



SHAD FLY-FISHING. Shad can be taken with the fly, 

 but only where they are collected together in consider- 

 able quantities, or over a reef, or where they are obstruct- 

 ed by a dam or falls. The same rule obtains with salmon, 

 which never rise to the fly in smooth, still water, and 

 are caught most freely where the fresh stream falls di- 

 rectly by rapids or cataract into the brackish or salt tide- 

 way. If the lower part of the river is unbroken, the 

 salmon run directly up and are never taken by fly fishing, 

 and if they have to ascend a long distance to the first 

 rough water, they do not rise so well. It is possible that 

 the failure of salmon to take the fly in the Columbia and 



