in the lake, they are angled for with the artificial 

 fly, the same as for small trout. 



SMELTS. 



Smelts are caught in most rivers frequented by 

 salmon, and their common length is about seven 

 inches. They enter rivers from the sea, about the be- 

 ginning of winter, and are said to spawn in March. 

 They are mostly angled for, from March to August, 

 and usually with a paternoster line, so called from 

 the number of hooks, usually eight or ten, placed on 

 the line, at a regular distance from each other, like 

 the paternoster beads on the rosary, or " prayer- 

 tally," of Roman Catholics. The hooks, No. 9, to 

 stand better from the line, ought to be whipped to 

 a fine brisile, five or six inches long. Smelts will 

 take shrimps, their natural food, at the mouths of 

 rivers; brandling worms, or gentles; but a preferable 



bait is a piece of one of their own species. 



PIKE. 



Next to the salmon and the trout, the pike 

 affords the angler the greatest sport, in all the 

 various modes of angling for him; the principal 

 of which may be comprised under, 1. Trolling, in 

 its most restricted sense, of fishing with the dead 

 bait, and double gorge hook. 2. Live-bait fishing 



