Fishing in North Carolina. Ill 



stiff-cold worm on the chords of a piano and ob- 

 serve it move when the piano is played. It can- 

 not he sight, may not be sense of hearing, but 

 the vibration starts the worm. 



Next to the catfish the suckers are the most 

 abundant and widely distributed fishes in l^orth 

 Carolina. 



They are found indiscriminately in rivers, 

 ponds and lakes, and are known by many differ- 

 ent names. The flesh is usually white, rather 

 soft, somewhat flavorless; and, except the kind 

 known as red-horse, is hung on to so many small 

 bones that a person not fitted with a thresher 

 in his mouth had better not undertake to eat 

 this fish. 



Indeed one writer says the "sucker" is com- 

 posed of "flabby solids filled with treacherous 

 bones." 



The redhorse is perhaps the largest of the 

 species, and frequently works its way up to as 

 much as 8 pounds in weight. " It also has fewer 

 bones and the flesh is firmer. They will cau- 

 tiously take a hook baited with angle worm or 

 dough mixed with lint cotton and return a little 



