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feathers or hair for the under side of the spoon. Stand near 
the bow of your punt, and skitter the lure along the surface 
of the water, near the margins of the lily-pads, and if you are 
on Sodus Bay, or tempting the fish from almost any of the 
bayous of Lake Ontario, you will find cause for surprise that 
will force you to ejaculate; for it will be questionable which 
will be the most astonished, the novice in the boat or that in 
the water. A most important essential is to have a man at 
the stern who can use the setting-pole and sculls so as to en- 
able you to fish the border of the lly-pads without scaring 
the prey into their hiding-places. 
Cuffy says, “Uf we had de gun, we might git a mess of 
wood-duck.” I reply, “ Confound wood-duck ! Don’t you see 
that the large pickerel is going into the weeds, and that T 
can not prevent him? Turn the punt from shore.” 
In skittering for pickerel with live minnow, the shiner is 
the best. Use two or three hooks in a gang, as represented 
for “spinning-tackle.” Keep your bait in motion, upon the 
same principle that you would fish for salmon or brook trout. 
It is the favorite plan of angling for pickerel in New England, 
and is, moreover, essentially modern, and affords active recre- 
ation. 
STILL-BAITING FOR PICKEREL. 
‘The angler is free 
From the cares which degree 
Finds itself with so often tormented ; 
And although we should slay 
Each a hundred a day, 
*Tis a slaughter needs ne’er be repented.’’—Cortron. 
The primitive and philosophical method of angling for pick- 
erel is with an ash or hickory pole. The bait is a live frog. 
Of course, while angling in this way, you may study nature; 
but, lest you should fathom all things too soon, take books 
with you, for they are frequently unfathomable. Seek a place 
on the margin of a solitary pond, shut out from the habita- 
tions of men by a dense grove. Seat yourself on some fallen 
