. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatoriae, describing noted fishing-places and the pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. Fishing; Fishes. THE PIKE FAMILY. |39 fishing for them here. The tackle and the mode of taking them, described with so much minuteness by Hofland and Salter, are seldom resorted to in this country. Our anglers having so many fish amongst the Perch and Salmon families, and salt-wa
. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatoriae, describing noted fishing-places and the pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. Fishing; Fishes. THE PIKE FAMILY. |39 fishing for them here. The tackle and the mode of taking them, described with so much minuteness by Hofland and Salter, are seldom resorted to in this country. Our anglers having so many fish amongst the Perch and Salmon families, and salt-water species, affording an infinite deal more sport, the Pike of our ponds are considered fish of secondary or third-rate importance. When -fishing a pond from a boat, the snood should have two hooks, the smaller about two inches above the larger; the end of the bait or head of the minnow being held by the upper, while the lower hook is passed through it mid- way. When the Pike takes the bait he should be allowed to run a short distance; the line should then be tightened and the angler strike, and get the fish into the boat as soon as possible, never allowing him any slack line. Trolling for Pike with a Gorge-Hook.—Where there are deep holes close in by the bank, trolling with the gorge- hook is far more successful than any other mode. A good bass rod of twelve feet, with metallic guides and tip, and an easy-running reel with forty yards of plaited-silk line, are then required: a tin bait-box, carried at one's side like a powder-flask, is best to hold the minnows used for bait; they should have bran, coarse meal, or saw-dust put in with them, to prevent their rubbing or bruising. A piece of gimp of twelve inches is attached by a box-swivel to the line, and a hook-swivel is fastened at the other end of the gimp, for the purpose of taking off or putting on the bait after it is placed on the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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