YELLOW PERCH 



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of beautiful bright golden- Yellow Perch. When crisply and 

 daintily fried in a small modicum of meal, and laid on hissing 

 from the spider, they are "pan-fish" worth while; and they 

 make up in delicacy and richness of flavor all that they lack 

 in size. The Yellow Perch at Chazy, Lake Champlain, are of 



1. YELLOW PIKE-PERCH. 



2. CHAIN PICKEREL. 



the brightest golden-yellow color of any ever taken by the 

 writer, and they are very beautiful. 



Like egg-rolling rights on the White House lawn every 

 Mayday, this neat little fish belongs to the small citizen; but 

 in the Great Lakes and a few other places it is so numerous 

 and so large that it takes rank as a desirable market fish. 

 It is at home in the northeastern quarter of the United States, 



