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lure, but it is seldom one goes out after these "li'l 

 fellers." It can be done, however, simply by using 

 smaller baits, but the artistic way to catch "pan fish" 

 is to use a light fly-rod and flies on Nos. 14 and 16 

 hooks. 



The channel or speckled catfish (Ictalurus puncta- 

 tus), unlike other catfish, prefers running water, is a 

 clean feeder, and an excellent food fish. He will 

 frequently strike at a minnow or a spinner baited with 

 worms, or a spinner with a white bucktail fly if it is 

 permitted to sink and is retrieved slowly. 



