Fishing in North Carolina. 81 



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Lawson (1709) said: 



"The jack, pike or pickerel is exactly the same 

 in Carolina as they are in England. Indeed, I 

 never saw this fish so big and large in America 

 as I have in Europe ; these with us being seldom 

 above two foot long, as far as I have yet seen. 

 They are very plentiful with us in Carolina, all 

 our creeks and ponds being full of them. I once 

 took out of a ware above three hundred of these 

 fish at a time." 



