202 LAKE AND STREAM GAME FISHING 

 HOT WEATHER BEST FOR WALL-EYE 



July and August, the hot weather months, are the 

 best months of the fishing season for the wall-eye 

 and the big majority of the large ones have been 

 caught at this time. We can therefore thank his 

 honor for being on the feed during a period when 

 the other game fish are sluggish and mighty par- 

 ticular about their appetite. And it seems also that 

 he is at his best during the midday fishing, while the 

 basses and musky are in their best fettle in the early 

 morning and late evening hours of the hot weather. 

 Emil Faber of Chicago landed a nine-pound wall- 

 eyed pike on July 5th at Potato Lake, Wisconsin, 

 and of the actions of this hot-weather rascal he has 

 this to say: 



" After a few hours' trolling for musky, without 

 much success, we secured a supply of chub and shiner 

 minnows from a nearby creek and started casting. 

 It was about mid-day and a real July day, with an 

 outlook for a slim stringer. On my first cast, a toss 

 of about 90 feet in towards shore, straight for the 

 mouth of the small creek, I had let my bait go down 

 and on reeling in my hook, thought I was snagged. 

 I was about ready to begin cussin' my luck when 

 the supposed log on which I thought I was snagged 

 became very much alive, and I set the hooks for 

 keeps. 



