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when at last I felt safe to give him the gaff and 

 raised him into the boat, I certainly knew I had as 

 fine a wall-eyed pike as a fellow ever hopes to coax 

 out of the home waters." 



The wall-eyed pike is not a showy fighter and 

 doesn't have the rapid fire action of the basses or 

 the is no mean antagonist. A 

 fairly large-sized on?1l>^stlong^^action and he in- 

 jects enough tug and pull into his tight to satisfy any 

 but the most jaded of fishermen. Even so, to hook 

 a wall-eye and play him to the net is a nice, clean 

 piece of sport. You have to handle them carefully 

 and not try to bring them to the net too speedily or 

 you will lose your fish. The strike of the large 

 wall-eyed pike is the unexpected of the fishing game 

 and E. C. Myers of Chicago lines up the following 

 as the final efforts of a 1 1 %-pound beauty he landed : 



MID-DAY BEAUTY FIGHTS DEEP 



"On August 1 7th, when I landed a wall-eyed 

 pike that weighed 11% pounds, I was fishing for 

 bass on Black Lake, McNaughton, Wisconsin, and 

 was alone in my boat, with neither gaff nor landing 

 net. 



" All morning I had been having little luck and 

 few bites. It was after lunch time when I decided 

 to quit and return to the camp. No sooner had I 

 put away my rod and grasped the oars than I no- 

 ticed a swirling of water and saw a sucker about 



