Fish and Fishing 



States, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and 

 Canada, a week or two later is plenty early enough. 

 Mountain brooks run low after May 15th, and 

 the larger fish go down to the rivers, if not caught 

 by that time; though a few stay in deep holes? 

 affording chances to capture them later in the 

 season after a flood. 



Going back to the marine fishes, laws do not 

 govern dates of capture; their arrival is soon 

 known. Different species come in different ways; 

 sometimes the biggest are first-comers, other times 

 it is the reverse, though the former 

 * s mos t usual. Bottom feeders seem 

 to arrive ahead of surface feeders, 

 the latter being always more numerous, and in- 

 variably in vast shoals and mostly of a given size. 

 As the season advances the quantity grows. Weak- 

 fishing begins in June and is better in July. Blue- 

 fishing is good in July and August. Striped bass 

 fishing is not so good early as in the fall. Fluke" 

 is best in July and August; each and all straggle 

 on earlier or later. 



For pike, pickerel, mascalonge, and bass, the 

 early season is better than the summer, but no 

 better than the fall; not as good as the late fall. 

 Pike and pickerel are more ravenous early in the 

 season,, taking spoon baits readily, and are cer- 

 tainly less wary than during the hot months. 

 Perch and pike perch also take the lure better 

 early in the season. For bass-fishing there is no 

 choice between early or late season; much de- 

 pends on many conditions that are always uncer- 

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