FISHIXG FOR TEOUT, PICKEREL, ^^JN'D BASS. 03 



With a little care you may catch nearly all of them, al- 

 though some of them, and the largest ones at that, Avill 

 not bite. In such a case, Lave three hooks fixed like a 

 grapple, and with your line swing it under their heads, so 

 that a light twitch will fetch the hooks into their belly. 

 Some catch them with a slip-noose made of annealed wire, 

 or brass wire, and fastened to the end of a rod, so that 

 it may be slipped over their heads. 



Trout may be caught at any season of the year, if you 

 can only find where they are. In winter they move into 

 deep holes of water, and by cutting a hole in the ice over 

 one of these deep holes, and baiting with liver, you may 

 catch them, even when it is so cold as to freeze them stiff 

 in a few moments. 



Pickerel fishing is quite different from trout fishing. 

 There are several distinct kinds of fish called the Pickerel, 

 different sorts having the same name in different coun- 

 tries. In Canada, for instance, the Pickerel is a short, 

 chunked, weasel-eyed, yellow fish; in this country it is 

 a long, slim, spotted, flat-headed fish, and a regular fish 

 eater, closely allied to the muscalonge ; in fiict, some per- 

 sons cannot distinguish between them. They are fished 

 for in the same way, and their habits, so far as I know, 

 are exactly alike. As soon as the ice goes off, in the 

 spring, the Pickerel and muscalonge go to their spawning 

 places near the banks of the streams, among bogs, and 

 where the bottom is muddy. 



They frequently get into the drowned lauds where the 



