. Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission, 1909-1911. -- . hile in other localities, more especially in some ofthe waters of the Hudson Bay watershed, it is frequently the only fishcapable of affording sport to would-be anglers. The pike is not as a rule accorded the rank of a sporting fish, butthis is to be attributed largely to the fact that most of the angling forit occurs in the summer months when it is lying inactive amongst theweeds and, in consequence, is comparatively weak and flabby. In theaiutumn when the w^eeds have died down and this wolf of the waters iscompelled
. Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission, 1909-1911. -- . hile in other localities, more especially in some ofthe waters of the Hudson Bay watershed, it is frequently the only fishcapable of affording sport to would-be anglers. The pike is not as a rule accorded the rank of a sporting fish, butthis is to be attributed largely to the fact that most of the angling forit occurs in the summer months when it is lying inactive amongst theweeds and, in consequence, is comparatively weak and flabby. In theaiutumn when the w^eeds have died down and this wolf of the waters iscompelled to hunt for its prey in the open, it becomes a difterent fish,lean, active and muscular, and it is no exaggeration to say that at suchtimes a large specimen will tax the skill and endurance of an expertangler to their uttermost and provide him with most excellent , however, in the summer nnraths, when it becomes quicklyexhausted, the first rusih and savage tugging of the fish at the line willBtir the pulses of those wlio enjoy the s])()rt of angling. It is most. Male and Female Rainbow Trout Caught on a Cockadoosh in the Canadian Soo Rapids, 1910.
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