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to see it and struck. The fish are generally willing 

 to do their part, if the fisherman goes half way and 

 lets 'em see the lure. Here's how Sidney explains 

 it: 



" I was throwing a small perch out towards the 

 edge of a fine weedy spot in Long Lake, trying to 

 entice the lazy pike up out of the deep. I got sort 

 of careless about reeling in, after failing for some 

 time to get a strike, and had let my bait settle through 

 stopping the reel, when this old man hit that perch 

 bait like an elephant. 



" I fought him to the limit, but he made the weeds 

 before I could recover my wits and had a nice run 

 of seventy-five feet of line down among them. I 

 followed him up as fast as I could and it was some 

 job getting to him through the mass of weeds, but 

 I got him, which was my object in going fishing." 



THE WALL-EYE FOOLS 'EM 



The wall-eyed pike is by nature a bottom fish and 

 it seems they take keen pleasure in staying there. 

 Even when about to be landed the wall-eye always 

 makes a few runs down to the bottom after being 

 brought up alongside of the boat. Another queer 

 thing about this old boy is the fact that a strike of 

 a large-sized one is generally taken for a snag. Of 

 sixteen wall-eye weighing from nine pounds up to 

 fourteen that came under my notice one season, ten 

 were hooked and the ten fishermen all thought they 



