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rind, covering the entire amount with salt, and your 

 bait will keep indefinitely. (2) Pork rind on a 

 weedless hook with 'a No. 3 spoon or tandem spin- 

 ner makes a fine pickerel bait. Tie red yarn around 

 the head and let the string ends hang down about 

 as long as the rind. Some bait. 



QUESTION. What is the Warmouth bass? 

 G. M. 



ANSWER. The Warmouth bass, called by some 

 the google-eye redeye, and bream, is really a sunfish 

 shaped very much like the rock bass. Grows to ten 

 inches and prefers shallow ponds and lowland slug- 

 gish streams, not very game and generally carries 

 the flavor of the mud bottoms when used as food. 



QUESTION. To settle a dispute can you tell me 

 the surest way to identify the pickerel, pike and 

 musky? G. S. 



ANSWER. By comparison you will find the pick- 

 erel has both cheeks and gill covers entirely scaled; 

 the pike has scales on the cheeks and upper half only 

 of the gill covers, while the musky has only the 

 upper half of the cheeks and gill covers scaled. 

 Many true pike are called pickerel. 



QUESTION. Will you kindly give a formula for 

 preserving minnows? F. J. D. 



ANSWER. For preserving minnows make a solu- 



