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EDITOEIAL GLEANINGS. 



Voracity of the Pike. — Mr. F. Schroeder, writing recently to the 

 editor of ' The Fishing Gazette,' says : — 



" Perhaps you remember in 1898 we had a conversation about the 

 best way to mark fish, as I caught then such large numbers of Pike I 

 did hot know what to do with, and intended to mark a number of 

 them so as to determine their growth and wanderings. The outcome 

 of our conversation was, I got some numbered labels to be attached by 

 a wire to the gill-covers. Looking over my diary, I find the following 

 interesting items : — 



Pike No. 5.— Weight, 3 lb. ; 22 in. long. Kecaught by Mr. Moseley 

 the following week. Feb. 21st, 1899. 



Pike No. 6.— Weight, 3 lb. ; 23 in. long. Recaught by Mr. Wood- 

 house six days later. Feb. 21st, 1899. 



Pike No. ii. — Weight, 4 lb. ; 25^ in. long. Recaught and killed by 

 Mr. Woodhouse in March. Feb. 21st, 1899. 



Pike No. 15. — Weight, 2^ lb. ; 23 in. long. I caught him again 

 March 14th, 1899. Recaught by Mr. Woodhouse the following day 

 about a mile away. 



Pike No. 61. — Weight, 3^- lb. ; 24£ in. long. I recaught him an 

 hour later on the same spot without having moved my boat. March 

 14th, 1899. 



Now, you must bear in mind that each fish — they were all caught 

 spinning — after having been landed, was put into a narrow open box, 

 with one side movable, which was screwed up to the fish placed in it 

 so as to hold it in position. A large hole was cut in the movable side 

 so as to enable me to get easily at the gill- cover. I then pierced the 

 gill-cover with a pair of specially made pliers, and inserted a ring with 

 label attached. Finally, I closed the ring with another pair of pliers. 

 The fish was then taken out of the box, weighed, measured, and care- 

 fully returned to the water. 



In this way I registered some seventy fish, but, finding that I kept 

 on catching the same fish day after day, I gave it up. On many fish 

 I could clearly see that my label had been torn out of the gill-cover." 



