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Part of Cheek and Gill Covers of a Pike. 



- splashes or blotches of brown on a lighter 

 greenish ground ; they are one and all 

 mascalonge and will have the scales on 

 cheeks and gill covers as I have described. 

 The pike, which is generally called 

 "pickerel," will have scales all over the 

 cheeks and on the upper portion of the 

 gill covers, the lower portion being bare. 

 This fish has bean-shaped, lemon-colored 

 spots on a darker ground, but without 

 reference to color, the scales on cheeks and gill covers will determine the 

 species. 



The pickerel proper, "pond pickerel " 

 or " grass pickerel," has scales all over 

 both cheeks and gill covers. This fish 

 has reticulated dark lines on a lighter 

 ground, but the coloring varies with the 

 iwater in which it is found. 



There is no reason that I can see why 

 these fish should be confounded, one with 

 another, and there is certainly no reason 

 why each species should not have its 

 proper name applied to it, no matter 

 where it is found. 

 Reforms of this sort are not easily worked out, but concerted action 

 on the part of anglers will bring about a change devoutly to be hoped for. 

 One trouble has been that the anglers themselves did not always recog- 

 nize the difference in the fishes, but the three pikes are here represented 

 so that all who run may read. 



Part of Cheek and Gill Covers of a Pickerel. 



