62 fish: their habits and haunts. 



pale brown; ventral, anal, and caudal fins 

 bright vermilion." A pe-rch of three pounds 

 is considered large, but it has been taken 

 weighing six or eight pounds. The perch 

 loves to lie by the side of the stream, and 

 under deep banks or near beds of the water- 

 lily, the eddies at milltails-tide, and tumbling 

 bays, near old piles of wooden bridges or 

 old kemp shedding, as well as under project- 

 ing willow boughs. The best baits for perch 

 are the minnow, the gudgeon, the red worm, 

 and the brandling. 



The common mode of angling for . perch 

 in ponds is with a light, stiff rod, similar to 

 that used in worm-angling for trout, with a 

 short line of about the length of the rod, a 

 light float and a small sinker, with trout- 

 hook No. 2. The usual bait for the perch 

 in pond-fishing is the common ground- 

 worm, which it will take generally, if it will 

 take anything. In regard to minnow-fishing 

 for perch, Hofifland says : " The minnow 



