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Esox reticulatus, and gives you the idea of a fish in better condition. 

 A muskalonge weighing 20 tbs. would not be longer than a pickerel 

 weighing 12 tbs. The bronchial, dorsal, ventral and anal fins have 

 a different number of rays, which establishes it without a doubt as a 

 separate species. It grows to an immense size ; the writer has seen 

 one weighing 20 tbs. He is caught there in the spring and autumn 

 with the seine, but in general keeps off in deep water in the summer 

 months, differing in this respect from the pickerel, which passes the 

 warm weather basking in the shallows. He is sometimes taken by 

 the lake craft, when trolling for trout, and sometimes by a professed 

 angler with the rod. 



" The Pickerel, (Esox reticulatus). We give the New England 

 name of this fish ; it is known in western New York, and in the 

 south, as the pike, and the term pickerel is given to the glass-eyed 

 pike (iMcioperca Americana), This species sometimes grows to the 

 size of 12 or 14 tbs., but the more common weight is about 2 or 3 

 tbs. : 110, weighing 250 tbs., were taken by the writer and his friend 

 in July, 1841, in the Catamank, which enters into Lake Michigan. 

 Not many are caught in the lake, but those are finer and better fish 

 than the river-fish. 



" The Pike-perch, (Dacioperca Americana). One of the best 

 fishes to be found in the western waters. Naturalists say he is a true 

 perch, though so voracious and predatory in his habits as to be gene- 

 rally supposed to be a pike. Our pike likes deep water, the foot of 

 rapids or mill-dams. To catch him, use one of those miniature lob- 

 sters called craw-fish, let out twenty yards of line, and stand fast ; in 

 some fifteen minutes you will feel a heavy pull at your line, different 

 from the savage rush of the pickerel or the lightning-leap of the bass. 

 He gives up in a few minutes." 



(HH.) 



Nova Scotia. 

 The very best salmon fly-fishing is to be had here. 



E. NEWMAN, PRINTER, 9, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BisHorsGATE, 



