3#4 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



consin, that was game enough for anyone. I was trolling 

 for Mascalonge, and had caught a twenty-nine and one- 

 half-pounder with which I had a fight of an hour and a-half 

 before I got him in the boat, when I had a tremendous 

 strike. Down went the fish into deep water, and there he 

 staid. I told my guide I did not know how big he was, but 

 was satisfied he was larger than the one we had caught yes- 

 terday. We pulled for shoal water, about half a mile away, 

 but the fish kept down in spite of my efforts to bring him to 

 the surface. 



We finally stopped and reeled in. It was slow and difficult 

 work, but he finally showed up and it was only a six and one- 

 half-pound Wall-eye! How a fish of that size could offer so 

 much resistance was, and is yet, a mystery. 



Take these fish in swift water and they are as full of vim, 

 and fight, as any fish, except the Brook Trout. 



As an edible fish the Wall-eye may be classed A No I. 

 The flesh is white, firm and flaky. Steamed, baked, broiled 

 or fried in butter, they are hard to beat. 



There is no place in the United States, to my knowledge, 

 where the Wall-eye is more plentiful than in the lake region 

 of Northern Wisconsin, along the line of the Milwaukee, 

 Lake Shore and Western Ry. 



This road, runs clear around and incloses hundreds of lakes, 

 where not only the Wall-eye is plentiful, but Mascalonge, 

 Bass, Pickerel and Trout are found in great numbers. 



In 1868, in company with the Hon. D. O. Finch, of Des 

 Moines, Iowa, and a gentleman by the name of Deaver, I 

 went to a small inlet on the west side of Spirit Lake, in Dick- 

 inson County, Iowa, to fish for Wall-eyes and Pickerel. We 

 had poles, cut from iron-wood, near the lake, coarse lines, 

 and big hooks. We had no boat, so we rolled up our trou- 

 sers and waded out to the edge of deep water, where the little 

 inlet purled over the shelving pebbles into the lake. We had 

 a fin or two to commence with, but ere long we had all the 

 fins we wanted. 



