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water. A pike of 15 to 20 pounds will take con- 

 siderable strength of arm and tackle to hold him, 

 and the fight will consist of long straight lunges, at 

 times near the surface or down towards the bottom. 



In feeding habits the musky, pike and pickerel are 

 alike. They are solitary in habit and lie concealed 

 among the weeds, rushes and lily-pads, at the edge 

 of a channel where other fish are liable to swim 

 past or alongside of submerged rocks from which 

 they dash out for their prey, returning to the lair 

 to gorge the food and watch for another passer 

 by. 



SURE WAY TO JUDGE 



There is one way you can always identify these 

 three fish and be absolutely sure you are right. On 

 the musky the cheek and gill covers have scales 

 only on a very narrow strip on the top, while the 

 pike has scales on the entire cheek and the upper 

 half of the gill covers, and on the true pickerel both 

 the cheek and gill covers are entirely covered with 

 scales. This method of distinguishing between the 

 three fish is absolutely reliable and accurate, and as 

 both the cheek and gill covers are large even on the 

 smaller fish you will have no difficulty in noting these 

 characteristics. 



In many localities the pike is called pickerel, while 

 the true pickerel is called grass pike, so if you ever 



