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worse thing in the fishing line than a good string 
of golden-yellow and umber-brown Perch. When 
crisply and daintily fried in a small modicum 
Photo, by E. F. Keller. 
BLUE AND YELLOW ANGEL-FISH. 
H ol-a-can' thus cil-i-ar' is, a tropical species, about 15 inches in 
length, which is one of the most beautiful fishes in the world. It 
represents the Family of Scaly-Finned Fishes, Chae-to-don'ti-dae. 
of meal, and laid on hissing from the spider, they 
are “pan-fish” worth while; and they make up 
in delicacy and richness of flavor all that they 
lack in size. Except in famine times, an ounce 
of Yellow Perch is worth a pound of pike, carp 
or catfish. 
Like egg-rolling rights on the White 
House lawn every Mayday, this neat 
little fish belongs to the small citizen ; 
but in the great lakes and a few other 
places it is so numerous and so large, 
that it takes rank as a desirable mar- 
ket fish. It is at home in the north- 
eastern quarter of the United States, 
north of the Ohio and Missouri valleys 
from Maine to Iowa and Minnesota. 
In most of the lakes, ponds and 
fresh-water bays of New England 
generally it is fairly abundant. Its 
rule of life is to bite at everything 
that is offered at the end of a line — 
angle-worm, minnow, grasshopper, 
4^; and in length it measures from 7 to 12 
inches. 
The Yellow Pike-Perch 1 is frequently called 
the Yellow “Pike” and Wall-Eyed 
“Pike”; but it is not a real pike at 
all. The real pike is a blood brother 
to the muskallunge. The Pike- 
Perches have two 'prominent dorsal 
fins, the real pikes only one. 
Twice in trolling with hand-lines 
I have caught my spoon full of eel- 
grass. On hauling in to clear the 
tackle, each time the eel-grass turned 
out to be an eight-pound Yellow 
Pike-Perch. The first one came into 
the boat like a bunch of wet weeds. 
The second finally roused to a realiz- 
ing sense of its position, and made 
quite a demonstration, but chiefly 
in the boat, endeavoring to climb 
out. 
In the eastern United States, this is 
a northern fish that goes southward 
almost to the Gulf States. It is 
abundant in Lakes Ontario, Erie and 
Huron, and in many of the bays and 
larger streams attached to them, in which the 
water is clear, and the bottom of sand and 
gravel. By very many persons this fish is well 
liked as a food fish, and immense numbers 
are propagated every year. In 1900 the United 
THE BLUEFISH. 
frog-leg, trolling spoon, and fly, either natural or 
hand-made. The size of this fish varies from 
half a pound to three pounds, with a possible 
States Bureau of Fisheries distributed, of this 
species, 89,700,000 eggs and live fish. 
1 Sti-zos-ted'i-on vit're-um. 
