. 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. 308 THE CAT FISH. An esteemed friend who would infinitely prefer the capture of a single trout or black basse, to the taking of a cart-load of cat fish, thus discourseth of his first and last lake cat fish. " I have taken the cat fish but once, and on that occasion used a long, strong hand line, heavy sinker, and No. 1 Lime- rick salmon hook. I baited, as one would a mouse trap, wit
. 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. 308 THE CAT FISH. An esteemed friend who would infinitely prefer the capture of a single trout or black basse, to the taking of a cart-load of cat fish, thus discourseth of his first and last lake cat fish. " I have taken the cat fish but once, and on that occasion used a long, strong hand line, heavy sinker, and No. 1 Lime- rick salmon hook. I baited, as one would a mouse trap, with a bit of toasted cheese. I fished at night, and the result of this scientific procedure was a cat fish weighing seventeen and a half pounds. My ambition was satisfied. I have never repeated the experiment. A great many are taken by the dock fishers at night in this manner from the wharves (Detroit). The baits are toasted cheese, chicken guts, and raw liver, or beef. The latter, impregnated with asafcetida, is said by the knowing ones to be the best of the lot. These fish suck the bait in, rather than bite, giving a tremulous motion or series of little jerks to the line, much in the way an eel takes the bait. They are vigorous, exceedingly tenacious of life, and when ' laid to the land' denote their satisfaction by frequent groans and grunts. A year or two since whilst basse fishing (from the government wharf at Springwell's, three miles below the city of Detroit) with a friend, he took a cat fish weighing twenty-two pounds, with a live minnow, on a single gut; subsequently the same gentleman caught several others of as great weight with the minnow, by casting in very deep water and suffering the bait to lie on the bottom. " In the hands of an experienced cook the lake cat fish makes a dish fit for the gods ! It should be parboiled to extract the oil, then stuffed and roasted ' a la dindon.'". Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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