The Muskallunge 



too good for any but anglers and honest men." In Manitoba it is tiie 

 jack-fish, according to Mr Ernest Thompson Seton. 



One of the best streams for great pil<e fishing of which we 

 know is the Kankakee. In this sluggish river and its connecting 

 lakes this fish is quite common, and reaches a very large size. 

 The largest example of which we have any record as being taken 

 in the Kankakee weighed 26|- pounds. 



Br. 14 to 16; D. 16 or 17; A. 13 or 14; scales 123; cheeks 

 entirely scaly; upper part of opercle scaly, the lower half bare. 

 General colour, bluish or greenish-gray, with many whitish or yel- 

 lowish spots, which are usually smaller than the eye, and arranged 

 somewhat in rows; dorsal, anal and caudal fins with roundish or 

 oblong black spots; young with the whitish spots coalescing, 

 forming oblique crossbars; a white horizontal band bounding the 

 naked part of the opercle; each scale with a grayish V-shaped 

 mark. 



Muskallunge 



Esox masquinongy Mitchill 



Whence and what are you, monster grim and great ? 



Sometimes we think you are a "Syndicate," 



For if our quaint cartoonists be but just 



You have some features of the modern "Trust." 



A wide, ferocious and rapacious jaw, 



A vast, insatiate and expansive craw; 



And, like the "Trust," your chiefest aim and wish 



Was to combine in one all smaller fish, 



And all the lesser fry succumbed to fate, 



Whom you determined to consolidate. — Wilcox. 



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