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BELGRADE FISH AND 
FISHING 
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of him he was paddling across the shoal 
apparently none the worse for his ex- 
perience. 
Many sportsmen seem to hold the 
opinion that the pickerel falls far short 
of being a game fish. In this matter I 
differ with them greatly, for while the 
pickerel of the warm water ponds of 
Pennsylvania and Jersey are on the 
whole an undemonstrative lot, their 
brethren from the cold New England 
waters tare an entirely different propo- 
sition. In Great Pond of the Belgrades 
these fish seem to be particularly ener- 
getic, and are not at all averse to tak- 
ing the artificial fly. But whether taken 
on the fly or by skittering, his smashing- 
strike, his savage runs and his beauti- 
ful leaps into the air should win him a 
place in the heart of any red-blooded 
sportsmen. 
The Belgrade pickerel fishing starts 
when the ice goes out in the spring and 
continues without interruption through- 
out the entire fishing season; but the 
best months are May, June and Septem- 
ber. Most of the fish taken run from 
one to two pounds, but three and four 
pounders are not uncommon, while an 
occasional five or even six pounder 
means a red letter day for the fisherman 
lucky enough to secure such a prize. 
I well remember one beautiful four 
pound fish caught on a Scarlet Ibis fly 
with a four ounce rod. He fought for 
thirty-five minutes and in that time 
broke water thirteen times, ten of the 
breaks being clean jumps, while the 
other three were surface rolls. That 
pickerel was certainly not a “dead one”! 
The other fish mentioned as being 
found in Great Pond are not, strictly 
speaking, game fish. The white perch, 
while rising freely to a fly and being an 
excellent panfish, is a great nuisance to 
trollers for trout, as he is always found 
on the trout grounds and has a most vo- 
racious appetite. His cousin, the yel- 
low perch, is seldom fished for at Bel- 
grade except by those who wish to use 
him as live bait for pickerel or bass fish- 
ing, ‘and the same is true of the sunfish. 
The horned pouts, being caught at night, 
are not much sought for, although they 
average well in size and are a most deli- 
cious pan-fish. Chubs, suckers, eels and 
smelt are all what might be called acci- 
dental captures, but a two or three 
pound chub taken on a light rod with fly 
puts up a very pretty fight, as I know 
from experience. 
Of the wall-eyed pike I know little ex- 
cept that the three fish from Great Pond 
were all reported as having been taken 
trolling deep in about sixty feet of 
water. One of these fish I saw, and he 
weighed three and three-quarter pounds, 
and I was told that the others were of 
about the same size; this would seem to 
show that the species had been in the 
pond for some years before any record 
had been made of its capture in that lo- 
cality. 
W. G. Freedley, Jr., Penn. 
COLOR OF CAT-FISH 
To the Eidtor of Forest and Stream: 
""THE following incident was related to 
I me by an old fisherman who, though 
now past active participation in the 
sport, still loves to discuss it. We had 
been talking of the color of the same 
species of fish, caught in different 
wiaters, being either lighter or darker as 
the case might be, and the cause. 
Neither of us could give a suitable an- 
swer to it though the old fellow gave a 
good example.. 
He had gone to a bayou on Maple 
river, Montcalm county, Michigan, after 
cat-fish, but had met with poor success, 
catching only ia few small ones, six to be 
exact, that were of legal size. 
After he had brought them home, he 
regretted that he hadn’t put them back 
with the rest, as they were hardly 
enough for a good taste, let alone a 
meal. In the process of cleaning them 
he accidently tipped the pail which con. 
tained them into the cistern, with four 
yet alive. 
A year or so later the cistern, being 
very low and quite dirty, he decided to 
clean it out, and as the pipe of the 
pump did not reach the bottom, he 
climbed down with a bucket to bail it 
out. 
When the bottom was reached he dis- 
covered the same fish, still alive, that 
he had accidently spilled in the cistern 
the year before. They were much larger 
than when he had put them in, and were 
darker in color than those usually 
caught in an open stream. 
He said that though his wife would 
not eat them, he cooked and ate them 
himself, and that they tasted as good if 
not better than any he had ever eaten. 
Could anyone suggest what they had 
lived on; and how could they have sur- 
vived without the sun-light? 
Would the lack of sun-shine account 
for their darkness in color? 
Lloyd S. Beers, Michigan. 
JUAN AND JUANITA 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
I N your issue of January, 1921, page 
11, Mr. Van Allen Lyman says: 
“Whoever wrote that corking good story, 
‘Juan and Juanita,’ knew something 
about archery.” 
“Juan and Juanita” was written by 
Col. Geo. W. Baylor, C. S. A., as gallant 
a soldier as ever wore the Confederate 
uniform, and as kind ‘and lovable a 
man as I have ever known. 
His daughter showed me the manu- 
script of this book in 1876 and after try- 
ing various publishers, he finally got 
discouraged and gave it to his niece, 
Frances Courtenay Baylor, who brought 
it out in St. Nicholas, and it is now pub- 
lished in book form. 
I fully agree with Mr. Lyman as to 
the merits of the book, for it is one of 
the best books for children I have ever 
read. It is full of woodcraft and inter- 
esting things about nature, that the 
writer learned at first hand, in the wild 
west, before the Civil War. He certainly 
knew something ‘about archery, for in 
one of his fights an Indian got under 
his horse’s neck and tried several times 
to shoot him with his bow. 
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