Rod and gun . s some call it. Trolling for pike with a spoon, or still-fishing with a small fish bait, in five orsix feet of water, near weeds, providesgood sport in various parts of the Chate-auguay river and Lake St. Louis. Thepike thatare usuallytaken on aline varyfrom onepound and ahalf to fouro r fi V epounds, butthey havebeen takenup to twen-ty or event h i r t ypounds i i s veryrapid Whenone year oldthey arefrom eightto ten inch-es in length;2 years, 12to 15: to 25. The dore feeds on the same food as thepike. That is to say it takes a little oteverything and
Rod and gun . s some call it. Trolling for pike with a spoon, or still-fishing with a small fish bait, in five orsix feet of water, near weeds, providesgood sport in various parts of the Chate-auguay river and Lake St. Louis. Thepike thatare usuallytaken on aline varyfrom onepound and ahalf to fouro r fi V epounds, butthey havebeen takenup to twen-ty or event h i r t ypounds i i s veryrapid Whenone year oldthey arefrom eightto ten inch-es in length;2 years, 12to 15: to 25. The dore feeds on the same food as thepike. That is to say it takes a little oteverything and may therefore be caughtwith the same bait. Usually however thedore takes the bait at the bottom, but itwill sometimes rise to the lure in shallowwater. In appearance it is much like alarge perch, wnth the same coloring andmarkings. It also has some resemblancein shape to tbe pike, and indeed it isoften called pike-perch. In the UnitedStates it is called the wall-eyed pike,while the fish we know as the pike is. calle d the pickerel. Dore usually runfrom two to six pounds in weight. It hasa spinous fin on its back like a perch,and fishermen should be careful not toget their hands pricked with this, as itoften causes blood-poigoning. It is anexcellent tood fish. There is another kind of fishing to behad in Lake St. Louis that at one timeprovided most exciting sport, and that isfishing for the great lake sturgeon. Thisfish formerly abounded in the St. Law-rence, and is even now very far from be-ing extinct in the local waters. It growsto as much as five or six feet long andone hundred and fifty pounds in writerlast yearsaw a fishquite fivefeet inlength jumpout of thewater onLake , andwas toldby one ofthe Caugh-naway In-dians that itwas a stur-geon. Thisfish has along snout,with asmall suck-ing is prim-arily a bot-tom feeder,not incon- BASS FISHING ON ISLE PERROT, NEAR ANNE DE BELLEVLEGRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. but small fishes constitutesider
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