. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE MUSKELLUNGE. PIKE, MUSKELLUNGE AND PICKEREL. I will give thee for thy food No fish that useth in the mud. But trout and pike, that love to swim Where the gravel from the brim, Through the pure streams may be seen. Beaumont and Fletchhr, The Faithful Shepherdess^ 1611. The goodly well-grown trout, I with my angle strike. And with my bearded wire, I take the ravenous pike Drayton, The Muses Elysium, Nymphal IV. /^NE of the most ancient among
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE MUSKELLUNGE. PIKE, MUSKELLUNGE AND PICKEREL. I will give thee for thy food No fish that useth in the mud. But trout and pike, that love to swim Where the gravel from the brim, Through the pure streams may be seen. Beaumont and Fletchhr, The Faithful Shepherdess^ 1611. The goodly well-grown trout, I with my angle strike. And with my bearded wire, I take the ravenous pike Drayton, The Muses Elysium, Nymphal IV. /^NE of the most ancient among the families of fresh-water fishes, is ^"^^that of the Pike—the Esocidoe—a group of physostomous fishes, closely related to the flying-fishes and the cyprinodonts, and not very dis- tantly related to the Salmon tribe. This family contains only the genus Esox, which embraces five species, all natives of North America, one, the Pike, being a resident of the Old World, as well. Geologists tell us that remains of the Pike are found in abundance in the quaternary deposits of Europe, and that this, or closely related species, occur in the diluvial marl of Silesia, and in the chalks of the CEningen region. The wide distribu- tion of the Pike throughout the northern regions of Europe, Asia and America, indicates that this species was in existence many centuries ago, before the three continents became so widely differentiated as they are at the present time. The Pike being the oldest, the most widely distributed, and the best known member of its tribe, shall serve as the text for this chapter, and the lype with which the related species shall be compared. So few, however, have been the observations in this country, and so much has Esox lucius been confused with the other species of the genus, that it. 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 n
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