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take more chances in subduing a fish within a 

 reasonable time. This is not because of reckless- 

 ness, or because she does not understand or 

 appreciate the tensile strength of her rod. On 

 the contrary, she knows her tackle well, and has 

 the utmost faith in its potentiality. I knew a 

 lady friend who was never more than thirty min- 

 utes in bringing to gaff any salmon of from 

 twenty-five to thirty pounds. And my Kentucky 

 friend, Mrs. Bachmann (formerly Mrs. Stagg), 

 killed her tarpon of two hundred and five pounds 

 in eighty minutes. 



THE EASTERN PICKEREL 



{Esox reticulatus) 



The eastern pickerel, also called chain pickerel 

 in the North, and jack in the South, was first 

 described by Le Sueur, in 1818, from the Con- 

 necticut River. He named it reticulatus, owing 

 to the "reticulations" or the netted character of 

 the markings on the body. 



Its range extends from Maine along the coast- 

 wise streams to Florida and Louisiana. West of 

 the Alleghanies it has been reported from the 

 Ozark region of Missouri and Arkansas, but I am 

 rather inclined to doubt it. 



