







tell your friends that they believe y< lit that salmon with a $; 



Dill. 



The striped bass is a game fish which was principally designed to amuse 

 the Cuttyhunk Club and smash up high-priced tackle, 

 pickerel is not a game fish. He is an insect. 



There is a fierce fish called the tomcod which infests the lower Hudson. 

 When dredging from a North river wharf for tommies, sometimes you catch a 

 tommy and sometimes you catch an old, water-logged boot, and you cannot teli 

 which until you get it to the surface, except that usually the boot offers most 

 resistance. A tomcod sometimes attains the length of six inches and weighs at 

 least three ounces. He is very game. When you hook him, he helps you pull up 

 the sinker, and then fans himself until you take him in out of the wet. Some- 

 times a tommy will be game enough to live until you can get him into the >at 

 hit he is usually dead and half sour by that time. 



How to Angle 



There are various methods of angling, and each is useful in its way. 

 Casting the fly is the most scientific method. Let the young angler imagine 

 the rod and line to be a whip, and then let him try to lamn an imagiv 





40 feet away, and he will slowly acquire the correct motion. If there a 

 behind him, he will also get some subsequent exercise which will be healthful 

 and invigorating, though he may lose his patience and some tackle. 



Casting the minnow or frog is great sport, when the bass ar. : well, 



which occurs in the dark of the moon, about once in four years. Hook ] j 



