. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. CHAPTER XXIV. TJSKELLUNGE, MUSCALINGA, OR LAKE PIKE. Essex Estor. This capital fish, from his size, if for no better reason, deserves more attention than we have given him in former pages. By some naturalists he is classed as a distinct species, and different from the ordinary pike or pickerel of the ponds and rivers, but ichthyologists generally consider him nothing more than a monstrou
. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. CHAPTER XXIV. TJSKELLUNGE, MUSCALINGA, OR LAKE PIKE. Essex Estor. This capital fish, from his size, if for no better reason, deserves more attention than we have given him in former pages. By some naturalists he is classed as a distinct species, and different from the ordinary pike or pickerel of the ponds and rivers, but ichthyologists generally consider him nothing more than a monstrous fresh water pike,* or " Jack" as he is called in England. While on this subject, it may be well to remark that there are in some ponds and small creeks, a species of stunted pickerel that grow to about the size of from three to six inches, and never attain to a greater length; they seem not to have the same rapacious habits as the true pickerel which grows to pikehood, and are often found in trout streams, where they are said to be harmless, as would natural- ly be the case, for from his limited dimensions he could not do much harm. The appearance, especially when large, of the various inhabitants of the waters, they being more coarse, ill- shaped, and less symmetrical, leads many inexperienced persons to call them by different names, and consider them different species, though, in fact, often the same. This fish, also, in variety of size and age, has been a subject of much discussion among the knowing ones. The writer recollects the many re- marks made upon a portrait of a very large trout, hung in a place of resort for the fraternity. With some his head was too large and his tail too small, others his head too small and his tail too large; some would have his tail more square, and others more forked; some said his eyes were too small, and others the * In Ireland and Scotland they hnve been taken weighing ninety pounds. G*. \ V £BSJ». —. Please note that these
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