92 LAKE AND STREAM GAME FISHING 



THE BEST TIME 



Musky fishing is very good in June, unless the 

 season is extremely cold and backward. Towards 

 the tail end of July it slows up considerably, while 

 August is the poorest month for the big chief. Dur- 

 ing " dog days " his teeth are in poor shape and 

 you can hardly coax a strike out of him unless he 

 feels so down in the mouth and mean that he strikes 

 from pure cussedness. Like a snake shedding its 

 skin and the deer its horns, the musky loses its teeth 

 in August, but nature packs in a new set by the first 

 of September and the old boy is in a fine fighting 

 humor for that month. By far the best musky fish- 

 ing is to be had in September and October, when 

 the chill night air seems to fill them with an extra 

 supply of pep for the food hunt the next day. Even 

 up into November is not too late for the big ones, 

 but for downright good musky fishing it is hard to 

 beat September and October. 



STRIKES IN SNOWSTORM 



A few seasons ago a well-known fisherman who 

 has wet his line from Alaska to the Florida Keys 

 caught a 38-pound musky late in October in northern 

 Wisconsin in a blinding snowstorm. The wind was 

 blowing a half gale and the strike was made on the 

 final cast before running in to camp before the 

 storm. It was some game to land this husky 



