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nibble your minnow off, terrapin-like, and then 

 again lie will gradually sink the cork, allow it 

 to come to the surface, a few yards away, for an 

 instant and then slowly start under and off — 

 now you know it is a jack, but you do not know 

 whether to strike or wait awhile. It is safer 

 to strike, because he is now in the act of pouch- 

 ing the minnow. 



If you have a big minnow on and it is a big 

 jack, not hungry, he will likely take it deep in 

 water and consider it some time before pouch- 

 ing; but how are you to know that it is a big 

 jack? Give him plenty of time and he will 

 notify you^by hanging himself and ringing 

 the bell. 



Dibbling for red-fin pike in shallow, clear 

 water of ponds and streams is not sport, but is 

 productive of results; because every one that 

 sees the bait will come to creel, if you use a 

 slender, stiff rod and only eighteen-inch line. 

 Where plentiful, as in Mingo Swamp in Har- 

 nett and Johnston, it is an easy turn to catch a 

 breakfast of these dainty fish. 



There is a black water swamp in Eobeson and 



