. Fishcraft, a treatise on fresh water fish and fishing . icult con-ditions. 72 Fisher aft Good localities for this sport in thenorthern states, are in the vicinity ofDetroit, Little Falls, and Prior Lake,Minn.; Mackinac Island, Sault and Seney, Mich.; Butternut,Eagle River, Phillips and Pelican,Wis. In the eastern states: Clayton,Ogdensburg, and Theresa, N. Y.;Barton and Newport, Vt., are excel-lent places for lunge fishing. PIKE AND PICKEREL In shallow cove, near river bank, The pickerel-weeds grow green and rank In hazel-girdled, crescent bays Speckled with isles, an endless maze,
. Fishcraft, a treatise on fresh water fish and fishing . icult con-ditions. 72 Fisher aft Good localities for this sport in thenorthern states, are in the vicinity ofDetroit, Little Falls, and Prior Lake,Minn.; Mackinac Island, Sault and Seney, Mich.; Butternut,Eagle River, Phillips and Pelican,Wis. In the eastern states: Clayton,Ogdensburg, and Theresa, N. Y.;Barton and Newport, Vt., are excel-lent places for lunge fishing. PIKE AND PICKEREL In shallow cove, near river bank, The pickerel-weeds grow green and rank In hazel-girdled, crescent bays Speckled with isles, an endless maze, The yellow-tinted pickerel Lie hidden, motionless and still; The dorsal fin, the forked tail Scarce stir the waters, clear as jaws are open to assail And glassy eyes all murderous when the small fry of the lake, The minnow and the shiner the limpid surface break. Shooting like pearly sparks of , as an Indian tiger grimRends antlerd stag in jungles doth the water-tyrant slayThe helpless, unresisting Pike. HTHERE is a combination of prac-?^ tical truth and poetry in the fore-going well cast lines, depicting thenature of the pickerel, a member ofthe pike -family, the two species differ-ing very little in general characteris-tics. The ordinary pickerel is perhapsthe best known and most widely dis- 74 Fishcrajt tributed of fresh water fishes of whatmay be termed the intermediatebranch — taking rank below the vari-ous members of the trout, the blackbass, and the mascalonge species, andhigher in the scale than the ordinaryperch, the crappie, the sun-iish, two popular species inhabit thewaters of most of the rivers and lakesin the Eastern and Western states,
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