itf THE PIKE. 



trace, they can be instantly changed for heavier or 

 lighter leads. 



In moderately shallow lakes and the Norfolk 

 Broads, where are weeds growing up nearly to the 

 surface, with 12 ins. or so of clear water above 

 them, very large artificial flies, cast and worked 

 as salmon flies, may often be used with considerable 

 success ; for pike lying in the weeds, when refusing 

 a spinning-bait, will frequently snap at a large fly 

 drawn over them. 



These pike flies are about the size of humming- 

 birds ; are made of tinsel mixed with gaudy feathers, 



REVOLVING 



HEAD 

 PATENT 



PIKE-FLV, 3 INCHES LONG. 



and sometimes are built on two hooks. Pike when 

 hooked on them give capital sport ; almost, if not 

 quite, equalling the salmon. Carter and Co. manu- 

 facture a patent pike fly 3 ins. long, with a revolving 

 head, which is a very deadly lure. " Halcyon " 

 spinning flies 3 ins. long make excellent pike flies. 

 On February 33rd, 1878, a pike of 30 Ibs. was 

 caught with a pike fly in Lough Erne, Ireland, but 

 the captor is not known. 



"Trimmering" for jack and pike in private 

 waters where it is desirable to thin the numbers of 

 those fish, may be occasionally resorted to, but, to 



