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siesta in the cool depths, and although you lower 

 your bait to them, they give it the once over with 

 little or no interest. Even the eager little pannies 

 seem to be off the feed at this time. 



Among the big fellows the pike, pickerel and 

 musky Dame Nature has been playing hob with 

 the teeth and gums and by the opening of the fall 

 fishing these old warriors' molars have been shaped 

 up so that they are in fine fettle to try them out on 

 most any bait that flashes past. 



Right here I want to justify a statement I made 

 some time ago regarding musky losing their teeth 

 during August, and being supplied with an entirely 

 new set for the winter feeding. This statement has 

 caused considerable comment among writers of fish- 

 ing lore. I made it a particular point to examine 

 quite a number of musky this season and found that 

 as late as September loth some of them still had 

 the old teeth hanging loose in the mouth, while in 

 front of the old teeth were the new dagger teeth 

 firmly set in the jaws and ready for business. This 

 was a little later than usual for the old teeth to re- 

 main and was no doubt caused by late seasonal con- 

 ditions. At this same time the gums of the pickerel 

 were still swollen and in poor shape to encourage an 

 attack on a lure. 



As an explanation why these fish that are affected 

 with teeth troubles do not take the bait at this 

 teething period, although they must surely eat, many 



