October, 1922 
471 
pared for the worst. The only objection 
to fishing from an anchored boat is the 
possibility of becoming mixed up with the 
anchor rope, so if a fish is hooked al- 
most the first thing for the party of the 
second part to do is to get the anchor up. 
In the autumn many large pike can be 
taken by this system. Of course if two 
are fishing in a boat one may fish for the 
[Smaller fish while another uses heavier 
I tackle and perch for the pike that come 
I along. 
‘ To know the depth at which you are 
(fishing drop your line down with a 
sinker on it till you reach bottom. When 
!you have pulled up two feet of line from 
the bottom tie on a bit of grocery thread. 
:Pull up another foot (which will be three 
feet from the bottom) and tie on another 
bit of thread. So you can tie strings at 
various points and you will always know 
your depth without guessing at it. 
W HILE I have given some attention 
here to pike fishing, far be it from 
me to be disdainful of the sport to be 
had in bringing to boat a few of those 
gray "tigers” with scales that we are 
pleased to call mascallonge, muscallonge, 
muskellunge, etc., there being a baker’s 
dozen of names all meaning the same 
fish. It is fished for in much the same 
way as when after the great northern 
pike, the only difference being that one 
lake turns up numbers of muscallonge, 
and another hosts of pike. This condi- 
tion is particularly noticeable in the north 
where the range of the muscallonge is 
comparatively limited, while the great 
northern pike is found west to Manitoba 
and north over the height of land in 
Ontario to Hudson’s Bay. The mus- 
callonge is not native to the waters 
north of the height of land, something 
our book-writing authorities on pike fish- 
ing may be interested to know. The 
Conservation Commission of New York 
State conducts a hatchery at Bemus 
Point, on Chautauqua Lake, where mil- 
lions of muscallonge are annually propa- 
gated and distributed in New York 
waters, principally in the St. Lawrence. 
It is said that the pike is the most can- 
nibalistic of the family bearing that 
name, but it is highly doubtful if it can 
exceed the record of Esox nobilior, the 
muscallonge. Mr. John S. Casey, of the 
Bureau of Fish Culture, New York Con- 
servation Commission, notes that ; “A 
few years ago Supt. Winchester of the 
Chautauqua hatchery sent to the Albany 
office of the Commission a young mus- 
callonge 7]4 inches long, which within 
the thirteen weeks of its life had de- 
voured 100,000 of its brethren ! At all 
events when the pond was drained in 
which that number of newly hatched 
muscallonge fry had been placed, this 
fish was the sole survivor — in spite of 
the fact that a large number of minnow 
fry, smaller than the muscallonge, were 
planted in the pond as food at the same 
time.” 
The days on which to try for the mus- 
callonge in the autumn are those clouded, 
with a slight breeze ruffling the water 
surface. On such days best success will 
be had in the morning, from sun-up to 
ten or eleven o’clock. It is hard to tell 
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