1 62 Bass, Pike, and Perch 



Owing to its nocturnal habits, the hours from 

 about sunset until dark are the most favorable. 

 Night fishing is also quite successful should any- 

 one care for it. As a matter of experiment I 

 fished Pewaukee Lake, in Wisconsin, one moon- 

 lit evening in summer, many years ago, in com- 

 pany with three other anglers, there being two to 

 a boat. In a few hours twenty-two were landed 

 to each boat, weighing from three to four pounds 

 each. This was my only experience in fishing 

 for pike-perch at night, but I have known many 

 others to practise it very successfully. 



Fly-fishing is most successful from about sun- 

 down until dark, or later, and on cloudy days also 

 during the afternoon. Two flies on a four-foot 

 leader may be used, one of which should be a 

 light-colored one, as the coachman, or white 

 miller ; the other may be any of the hackles or the 

 stone fly, oriole, gray drake, polka, professor, or 

 Montreal. The same instructions concerning fly- 

 fishing for black-bass may be profitably followed 

 for the pike-perch, allowing the flies to sink two 

 or three feet after each cast, though it is a more 

 uncertain fish to locate, being much given to 

 roaming in its search for food at different 

 seasons. 



