The American angler . ities of game fish when handledon a light rod and delicate water , there is another phase to thesucker question which is entitled to con-sideration. Some years ago, under thestimulus of an animated discussion byintelligent and observing anglers, overthe merits or demerits of the sucker asa game fish, it was ascertained that thismuch despised species had taken a sur-face-trailed artificial fly, cast and man-ipulated by Judge Fitz-James Fitch, ofPrattsville, N. Y., and, when hooked,made a sturdy fight ; that this exper-ience was repeated in the case of a
The American angler . ities of game fish when handledon a light rod and delicate water , there is another phase to thesucker question which is entitled to con-sideration. Some years ago, under thestimulus of an animated discussion byintelligent and observing anglers, overthe merits or demerits of the sucker asa game fish, it was ascertained that thismuch despised species had taken a sur-face-trailed artificial fly, cast and man-ipulated by Judge Fitz-James Fitch, ofPrattsville, N. Y., and, when hooked,made a sturdy fight ; that this exper-ience was repeated in the case of a , a druggist, of New York city,who caught two black suckers on artifi-cial flies in a lake in northern NewYork, one of the fish taking the featherson top of the water, and the other seiz-ing them a few inches below the sur-face ; that a string of fifteen to twentywas made at Woodville, Me., by Papineau on a spoon fly, baitedwith worms and cast from the railroadbridge, and so eager were these suckers 3 CD.
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