92 Fishcraft ' 



York, and in the tide-water rivers 

 along the Atlantic coast, where it is 

 esteemed a fine food fish, and a fair 

 game fish at times, as it is caught with 

 artificial fly under favorable condi- 

 tions in Lake Ontario and elsewhere. 

 The inland herring, variously called 

 Alewife, Skipjack, and Shad-Herring, 

 has a wide range from the larger 

 streams of the upper Mississippi Val- 

 ley, in Lake Michigan and Lake Erie, 

 southward to the Gulf of Mexico, as 

 it descends to the deep waters and 

 presumably the ocean, from the 

 streams tributary to the Mississippi. 

 Its food is mainly worms in the fresh 

 water and crustaceans in brackish 

 waters. It is ordinarily about one 

 foot in length. 



Bullhead and Catfish 



Whether the bullhead is a separate 

 species or merely a small catfish, sig- 

 nifies nothing to the fisher-boy whose 

 early triumphs in the way of catching 

 fish in the mill-pond, lake or river, 

 resulted perhaps in catching one or 

 the other of these fresh water food- 



