Bait Angling for Common Fishes 



It seemed strange they never tried to dart 

 away in opposite directions; if that had 

 been attempted it would have been the last 

 of the business. They evidently decided to 

 work in unison to their own destruction. 

 Dr. Brown Goode states " there is no better 

 pike perch fishing in the world than that 

 which may be had in the vicinity of Lake 

 City, Minnesota, in Lake Pepin and the 

 adjacent waters." The tackle in use there 

 is a three-jointed bamboo rod, twelve 

 feet long, a click reel placed on the 

 front of the hand and on top of the rod, 

 with thirty or forty yards of braided silk 

 line, and a Sproat bent hook No. 3(0 

 tied to a single length of twisted double 

 gut or gimp. 



The pike perch is common all over Eu- 

 rope, and is known as the Zanda; it is 

 angled for in much the same way as for 

 pike. In Germany it is sold alive, being 

 kept in tubs in the markets. Millions of 

 pounds of this fish are caught in Russia 

 and Sweden, where it is salted and a kind 



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