HIS HONOR, THE WALL-EYED PIKE 



Right at the start, Old Man, I must tell you that 

 the wall-eyed pike is living under an assumed name. 

 His real monicker is pike-perch, but the boys have 

 sort of acquired the habit of calling him wall-eyed 

 pike, and so we let it go at that. Fact is, however, 

 he is also known as the jack-salmon, glass-eye pike, 

 yellow pike, and blue pike. He probably fell heir 

 to these names on account of his habit of bumming 

 around, making no particular spot his home. After 

 he fathers his spring family of from one to two hun- 

 dred thousand husky youngsters, and the little pikers 

 have learned to wag their tails, he leaves home and 

 hikes out on a still hunt for food, as he is always 

 hungry, having the reputation of being the heaviest 

 eater of the fresh-water fish. He lives almost en- 

 tirely on other live fish, and often eats his own 

 progeny to satisfy his lust for food. 



Where you find the wall-eyed in good numbers 

 one day, does not guarantee that they will congre- 

 gate there the next. There is no dope on his route 

 and he has no schedule. At times he frequents the 

 very deep pools and the next day he may be lying 



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