PAN-FISHING 



land when hooked. Blue-gilled sunfish and 

 the common sunfish also haunt the spots where 

 perch are found, and are susceptible to the 

 same temptations, as regards angle-worms and 

 fresh-cut perch meat. 



Fishing for pan-fish is very good sport if 

 properly managed. In the first place a spick- 

 span clean boat should be selected, one that is 

 clinker-built, wide, and not easily tipped. Get 

 the prettiest girl possible to go with you. Let 

 her do all the fishing. It will keep you busy 

 attending to baiting the hook, taking off the 

 fish, stringing them, cutting bait, and keeping 

 up a running comment of airy persiflage. A 

 girl who is not indifferent to the joys of yank- 

 ing out the toothsome and inoffensive pan- 

 fish is the kind you want one who is enthusi- 

 astic about clouds, landscape, the ripples over 

 the surface of the lake, and the hornless cattle 

 grazing on distant slopes. Beware of a blase 

 girl. Nothing is worse, excepting the blase 

 man. 



The particular nooks where pan-fish hide 

 are along the shores of lakes in the lake re- 

 gion, and around bulrush-beds they can gen- 

 erally be found all in a democratic gathering 



