1 66 LAKE AND STREAM GAME FISHING 



" openers," we sure have to keep our eyes on the 

 game or the wiley old rascal will make a get-away 

 with the kitty. Many sure-enough fishermen, who 

 have never had the undiluted pleasure of bringing a 

 man's-sized musky to gaff, tilt the nose skyward at 

 some of the tales brought from the musky country 

 and for that reason half has never been told about 

 this game old boy. 



From experience we find that the musky has a 

 varied menu and one of all sizes. Also that he is 

 willing to go more than half way in the matter of 

 accommodating the angler by striking most anything 

 tossed to him. He never travels in a crowd but is 

 a lone hunter, and his favorite spots are over sub- 

 merged weed beds, off the edge of weed beds, water 

 lilies or the grasses that grow in the water. Along- 

 side of a submerged rock he will wait on the look- 

 out for passing fish, then with a lightning dart he 

 swirls out, closes his jaws on the feed and swims back 

 to his hangout, there to gorge it, ready in a minute 

 to make another dash to fill the feed-bag. The 

 musky always strikes a lure or fish sideways and he 

 strikes with plenty of force, often nosing a plug way 

 up in the air when he strikes short. 



WHAT THE BIG FINS FALL FOR 



To the fellow who has never muskied much, but 

 who has a deep buried ambition to take a wallop 

 at this end of the game, and also the every-day 



