. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. THE BLITEFISH AND SPANISH MACKEREL 387 worse thing in the fishing hne than a good string of golden-yellow and umber-brown Perch. When crisply and daintily fried in a small modicum. Photo, by E. F. Keller. BLUE AND YELLOW . Hol-a-can'thus cil-i-ar'it<, a tropical species, about Indies in length, w^hich is one of the most beautiful fislies in the world. It represents the Family of Scaly-Finned Fishes, Chae-to-don'ti-dae. of meal, and laid on hissing from th
. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. THE BLITEFISH AND SPANISH MACKEREL 387 worse thing in the fishing hne than a good string of golden-yellow and umber-brown Perch. When crisply and daintily fried in a small modicum. Photo, by E. F. Keller. BLUE AND YELLOW . Hol-a-can'thus cil-i-ar'it<, a tropical species, about Indies in length, w^hich is one of the most beautiful fislies in the world. It represents the Family of Scaly-Finned Fishes, Chae-to-don'ti-dae. of meal, and laid on hissing from the spider, they are "pan-fish" worth while; and they make up in delicacy and richness of flavor all that they lack in size. Except in famine times, an ounce of Yellow Perch is worth a pound of pike, carp or catfish. Like egg-rolling rights on the White House lawn every Mayday, this neat little fish belongs to the small citizen; but in the great lakes and a few other places it is so numerous and so large, that it takes rank as a desirable mar- ket fish. It is at home in the north- eastern quarter of the United States, north of the Ohio and Missouri valleys from Maine to Iowa and Minnesota. In most of the lakes, ponds and fresh-water bays of New England generally it is fairly abundant. Its rule of life is to bite at everything that is offered at the end of a hne-— angle-worm, minnow, grasshopper, frog-leg, trolling spoon, and fly, either natural or hand-made. The size of this fish varies from half a pound to three pounds, with a possible 4-|; and in length it measures from 7 to 12 inches. The Yellow Pike-Perch' is frequently called the Yellow "Pike" and Wall-Eyed "Pike"; but it is not a real pike at all. The real pike is a blood brother to the muskallunge. The Pike- Perches have two prominent dorsal fins, the real pikes only one. Twice in trolling with hand-lines I have caught my spoon full of eel- grass. On hauling in to clear the tackle, each time
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