American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . h di- *rected backward, so thatanything once within is ex-tricated with difficulty. Thecolors vary considerably, ac-cording to. the abundanceand kind of food, the char-acter of the water, or otherinfluences, and also accord-ing to the sex and time of year. The prev-alent colors are deep green, or bluish-grayapproaching black on the back and head, whileolive-yellow and golden tints mingle with thegreenish or grayish reticulations of the sides, and peculiar. The shape of the body and locationof its fins are such as to give it great spe
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . h di- *rected backward, so thatanything once within is ex-tricated with difficulty. Thecolors vary considerably, ac-cording to. the abundanceand kind of food, the char-acter of the water, or otherinfluences, and also accord-ing to the sex and time of year. The prev-alent colors are deep green, or bluish-grayapproaching black on the back and head, whileolive-yellow and golden tints mingle with thegreenish or grayish reticulations of the sides, and peculiar. The shape of the body and locationof its fins are such as to give it great speed instraight forward motion, and power to stop orturn on the instant. It has, however, no abilityto execute those graceful sweeps and curveswhich make some of the carp family suchattractive denizens of ornamental ponds, basinsor vases, where their motions can be pickerel habitually rests perfectly molion-less, not a quiver or wave of a fin being visible,except a slight uudulatiug motion of the pec-toral or breast fins by which he balances him-. HEAB OF lICKEKEL. self; then in the twinkling of an eye he shootsaway with almost inconceivable rapidity—sogreat that the eye can hardly follow him—andstops stock still perhaps at the distance of onlya few feet, or it may be, rods. If the distance be Agriculturist. prey to larger ones. The writer once took alarge pike from the hook, having in his moutha small one which had previously partly swal-lowed the live bait fish, and found all three pickerel will take almost anything thatis small enough for him to get into his mouth,if it has motion resembling life; hence bits ofrags, bone, or painted tin, are used for bait,being trolled or drawn rapidly through thewater. Living fish as long as ones finger arecommon bait for set lines, aud such are used through holes iu the ice. The fish,spear is often successfully employed in takingpickerel of large size. Strong as he is, thepickerel does not make a hard fi
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