October, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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which are characteristic of the fighting 
fish. 
In nine years of fishing on the St. 
Lawrence the writer never caught a 
Muskalonge, but has often rowed and 
guided for those who did. The largest 
fish that was ever caught in my boat 
was twenty-four pounds. We caught 
him just before a heavy thunderstorm, 
and the drenching we received will long 
be remembered. One of the reasons 
that so few Muskalonge are caught is 
because fishermen are not persistent 
enough. Their vacations are limited in 
length and they usually want action, and 
do not care to spend day after day drift- 
ing about using a bait so large that only 
the largest fish can be hooked. It takes 
considerable determination and patience 
to pass hour after hour, and day after 
day, with never a strike, and few are 
willing to forego the excitement of actu- 
ally fighting a fish, even though it be a 
small one. Pike and bass give splendid 
sport and a great many are caught. 
VY7 HEN a Muskalonge is caught it is 
” customary on the river to set a 
white flag in the bow of the boat, and 
it is strange what an open sesame to 
friendship that little white flag is. Other 
fishermen cheer you and pull up their 
lines to come alongside and have a look. 
Complete strangers smile all over and 
congratulate the lucky fisherman. Pass- 
ing yachts blow their whistles in salute, 
and people line the rails of the excursion 
boats and yell to see the fish, and some 
power-boat is sure to run up and claim 
the honor of towing you home. 
When the landing is reached there is 
always a crowd, because the white flag 
and the whistles of the yachts have 
spread the news like wildfire. Cameras 
snap on all sides, and the journey up- 
town to one’s lodging looks much like a 
parade and frequent stops have to be 
made to allow belated cameramen to 
snap the faces of the party with the great 
fish dangling in the foreground. In the 
old days the fisherman was lucky if he 
got to bed at all that night, and it usually 
took all next day to get over the liquid 
congratulations poured down his willing 
throat. 
The guide who rowed the party always 
came in for his share of credit and was 
very popular for the rest of the season. 
His time was always well booked, and 
if by chance the fish had been caught by 
a rare kind of bait, such as a brook- 
sucker, he was usually at his wit’s end 
to fill the demand for it. One had to 
be very diplomatic in order to persuade 
fishermen to use other bait after the de- 
mand was created. It was no small trial, 
and very often strained one’s resources 
very severely to be able to meet the per- 
emptory demand of a good customer for 
a certain kind of bait. 
All the fishermen who engaged us, 
however, were not experts, and we had 
some very funny experiences. One rig 
we used to use for those who knew little 
of fishing and who brought no tackle 
with them was a trolling rig. It con- 
sisted of three stout hand lines. The 
person who sat in the. stern lazyback 
would hold one line in his hand, and the 
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