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been on short allowance, are now bold, voracious, and 

 fearlessly take the baited hook. 



When you have hooked a Jack or Pike, and played 

 with him till quite exhausted, and you are drawing it 

 ashore,, make it a rule to float him on his side, and keep the 

 head a little raised above the surface of the water, that 

 the nose or gills may not hang to, or catch hold of weeds 

 while you are thus engaged bringing your prize to the 

 shore, for sometimes you cannot avoid drawing over or 

 among weeds, and I have seen a Pike touch and get 

 entangled this way, and before it could be disentangled 

 it recovered from its exhaustion or stupor, and occasioned 

 much trouble and hazard before it could again be subdued. 



Note. It is asserted by some anglers that Jack or Pike 

 will not take a bait when the moon shows itself during the 

 day time, and they declare they have so frequently and 

 invariably found that to be the case, that when the moon 

 shines on the water, let the hour of the day be what it may, 

 they cease trolling. I have nothing to say on the subject, 

 the inquisitive angler can satisfy himself by observation. 



