PERCH. 5 1 



exact depth, and arrange the tackle so that it may 

 not be necessary to make a disturbance when 

 fishing commences. 



PERCH. 



THOUGH fishing for Perch properly belongs to 

 indeed heads this division of my subject, yet by 

 its habits of feeding and the methods of angling 

 employed for its capture, it might justly claim 

 honourable mention both under the category of 

 fly-fishing, and, taking the word in its widest sense, 

 of trolling also. Thus, for example, in the great 

 lakes Perch will often take a spun Minnow or a 

 bright fly in preference to any other baits, whilst 

 both in lake and river the deadly qualities of a live 

 Minnow or small Gudgeon are well known to all 

 Perch fishers.' 



In the case of lake-spinning for Perch it would 

 seem that the usual rule in regard to the superiority 

 of natural over artificial baits is reversed. Whether 

 from the greater facility with which small artificial 

 baits are procurable, or from some other cause, I 

 have certainly caught and seen caught, far more 

 Perch by the artificial than by the natural spin- 



