PIKE , MUSKELLUNGE AND PICKEREL. 
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About Locust Point a few are taken in the fall. Twenty years ago, in 
this region, including the fisheries of Ottawa, Port Clinton, Toussaint, and 
Locust Point, Muskellunge were taken weighing sixty or seventy pounds. 
In Sandusky Bay, specimens are caught of forty-five pounds weight, and 
at Kelley’s Island one was caught weighing fifty-seven pounds, and another 
sixty-two pounds. 
In connection with the Huron (Ohio) fisheries, it is reported that about 
one hundred and fifty fish of this species were taken in seventy-five nets 
during the year 1879. They are here generally large, and are always 
taken in pairs. Three or four represent a year’s catch of this fish at Ver¬ 
million, Ohio. About Black River, Lorain County, Ohio, Amherst, and 
Brownhelm Bay, it is very scarce, few being caught in nets ; all that are 
taken are large. Of this fish, in connection with the Cleveland and Dover 
Bay fisheries, it may be said that it is very rare, and is becoming more so 
each year. Mr. Sadler says he took one weighing eighty pounds. The 
fishermen say they are always found in pairs. 
The Muskellunge is taken at Conneaut, at the rate of half a dozen in 
ten years. Only one specimen was taken in the Painesville pounds in 
1879. At Fairport and Willoughby, Ohio, no mention is made of its 
occurrence. Erie Bay, especially at Dunkirk and Barcelona, New York, 
Erie, Pennsylvania, and Mill’s Grove, Ohio, is famous for its Muskellunge 
fishing; this past season, over sixty were caught, weighing from twenty to 
forty-five pounds. They are caught by trawling. Fancy prices are paid 
for them; about twenty-five cents per pound retail in the city, and twelve 
and a half cents when shipped. More were caught during the season of 
1879 than ever before. 
The following notes relate to the fishery in Lake Ontario : At Oswego, 
the fish is very rare on the American side ; at Port Ontario, one is occa¬ 
sionally caught; at Cape Vincent, they are common, especially in the St. 
Lawrence. Nine have been brought in in one day, the smallest of which 
weighed thirty-two pounds. They are not now, however, so plentiful 
here as formerly. At Chaumont very few are caught. Seven years ago 
one was captured here weighing sixty-five pounds. At Sacket’s Harbor, 
very few Muskellunge are caught. 
The Pike is in Europe considered one of the most important of game 
fishes. Isaac Walton devotes to it an entire chapter, and Mr. Cholmon- 
deley-Pennell, a well-known English writer on angling, has published a 
considerable work, entitled “ The Book of the Pike.” 
