OUTDOORS 



And because he is a handsome fish, with his 

 gleaming sides and mottled scales, he is quite 

 a favorite among those lesser anglers whose 

 minds do not aspire to the u jumping bass," 

 the lithe pickerel, or the sturdy wall-eyed pike. 



The crappie will sometimes strike at a 

 " spoon " when a man is trolling for pickerel 

 or bass, and a few are caught in that way 

 every year. But with his comparatively small 

 mouth it is plain to be seen that nature never 

 intended the crappie as a swallower of large 

 baits or lures. When he " strikes " a spoon 

 and hooks himself, he makes a very feeble 

 fight, and is easily lifted into the boat. But 

 he is only occasionally caught in this way. 

 The recognized method to fish for crappie 

 5n the lakes is by still-fishing for them and 

 by " drifting." In still-fishing in the lakes the 

 boat is anchored in water twenty or thirty 

 yards from the shore, and the fisherman sits 

 hopefully in the bow or the stern of the boat 

 and waits for the crappie to engulf the bait. 



There is nothing on earth that can equal 



the patient serenity of expression which rests 



on the sunburned features of these living 



pictures at such times. The fatter a man or 



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