. With rod and gun in New England and the Maritime provinces [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. Part of Cheek and Gill Covers of a Pike. splashes or blotches of brown on a lighter greenish ground; they are one and all mascalonge and will have the scales on cheeks and gill covers as I have described. The pike, which is generally called I" pickerel," will have scales all over the 'cheeks and on the upper portion of the gill covers, the lower portion being bare. This fish has bean-shaped, lemon-colored spots on a darker gro
. With rod and gun in New England and the Maritime provinces [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. Part of Cheek and Gill Covers of a Pike. splashes or blotches of brown on a lighter greenish ground; they are one and all mascalonge and will have the scales on cheeks and gill covers as I have described. The pike, which is generally called I" pickerel," will have scales all over the 'cheeks and on the upper portion of the gill covers, the lower portion being bare. This fish has bean-shaped, lemon-colored spots on a darker ground, but without reference to color, the scales on cheeks and gill covers will determine the species. The pickerel proper, "pond pickerel" or " grass pickerel," has scales all over both cheeks and gill covers. This fish has reticulated dark lines on a lighter ground, but the coloring varies with the \water in which it is found. There is no reason that I can see why these fish should be confounded, one with another, and there is certainly no reason why each species should not have its proper name applied to it, no matter where it is found. Reforms of this sort are not easily worked out, but concerted action on the part of anglers will bring about a change devoutly to be hoped for. One trouble has been that the anglers themselves did not always recog- nize the difference in the fishes, but the three pikes are here represented so that all who run may Part of Cheek and Gill Covers of a Pickerel. « iM: . I â 11 i! %\ ii I â } i 'f '4 \. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908. Boston : Samuels & Kimball
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