TROLLING. 



CHAP. II. 



TROLLING FOR JACK AND PIKE ; IN WHAT 

 WATERS THEY ABOUND MOST, AND HOW 

 TO TAKE THEM. 



The Jack and Pike,* are well known to be 

 the tyrants of rivers, lakes, and ponds, but 

 they afford the angler much amusement, 

 sport, and exercise in trolling for them, and 

 they are also held in much estimation at table, 

 being considered as one of the best fish the 

 fresh waters produce ; they are therefore 

 sought after with the greatest avidity by the 

 angler, and every art and stratagem is em- 

 ployed to take them : these I shall fully detail 



* Jack or Pike, names for this fish, which are generally 

 used as synonymous among 1 anglers j but, properly speaking, a 

 Jack becomes a Pike when weighing more than three pounds, 

 r exceeding twenty-four inches in length. 



