JUST ORDINARY OL' PICKEREL 101 



You probably had a long cane pole or a young sap- 

 ling cut from the nearby wooded shore; anyway, 

 from that time on you realized that there was " some 

 sport " to the game. Since then, of course, the ol' 

 pickerel has sorta been dropped into the discard, and 

 it takes trout, bass or musky, perhaps, to start the 

 joy trips up along your vertebrae. But let me tip 

 you off straight: there's many a good fighter left in 

 the pickerel outfit, regardless of the many slurs cast 

 upon his fighting qualities by some of the ultra- 

 exclusive highbrows in the angling derby. 



FIND PICKEREL MOST ANYWHERE 



The pickerel is one of the fish that you can fish 

 for nearly anywhere, and you don't have to make 

 a five hundred to one thousand mile trip to his 

 home grounds. He is a common, ordinary cuss that 

 can pick up a living on next to nothing, and at the 

 same time raise a mighty big family. In nearby 

 " civilized " waters he will even make a sure-enough 

 professional fisherman sit up and take notice be- 

 cause of his ability to evade the bait and make said 

 fisherman use all his skill and wits to induce him to 

 take the lure. The more he is fished for the wiser 

 he gets, and to land a few fair-sized pickerel in much- 

 fished waters takes keen work, more so, in fact, 

 than for the gamer fish in the usual fish haunts of 

 the North Woods. As a rule the pickerel found 

 in local waters does not grow to excess size, say 



