13i Fishing in North Carolina. 



frogs and water rats, but will devour each otlier. 

 The "book" relates an incident where a ten 

 pound pike was caught with the head of a nine 

 pounder stuck in his mouth. The lad who 

 caught it wondered to see a "muckle fish wi' 

 twa tails." 



Buckland, however, remarks that more lies 

 have been told about the pike than about any 

 other fish. I suspect that is true. 



Back to my story: Fortunately the rivers 

 and rivulets of l^orth Carolina abound in all 

 sorts of minnows (small fishes) and insect life, 

 many of them literally teeming with a species 

 called shad roach, in some localities shiners; 

 that afford abundant food for big fish. These 

 little fish hunt their own food, consisting of egg's 

 of other fish, worms and bugs, working their 

 way around the ponds in vast schools; accom- 

 panied by game fish which hover on the out- 

 skirts of the school, and when the appetite 

 prompts, they dart into the school. There is a 

 rush to get out of the -way, a ripple on the water 

 is noticeable; and then all is calm again — one 

 fish having gone inside another and no hole is 

 made in the water. 



