A Big Game And Fishing Guide To Northeastern Maine Bangor And Aroostook Company by Bangor And Aroostook Company 9781230187471, 1230187472 instant download after payment.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... inch wide and one and one half inches long. This is the nicest way of fishing for them of all, and we generally find that we catch three times as many as any one else fishing some other way. When live bait fishing, a buck-shot should be placed about six or eight inches above the bait to keep it down, and the float in an upright position. All hooks should be snelled on gimp, as the little chaps' sharp teeth will cut gut in no time. Pickerel, as a rule, are found in shallow water over a weedy bottom, and lie in the weeds close to the bottom; therefore when fishing for them, this part of the lake or pond should always be selected first. Never pass a clump of lily-pads without well fishing it on all sides. Trout tackle is all that is necessary for this fish, except the hooks, which, as we have said before, should be snelled on gimp. For pickerel waters, consult the " Pathfinder." Black Bass. LACK Bass are indigenous to North America only. Until recently it was supposed that there were many varieties of black bass, --twenty-two separately named species are on record. Professor Gill, in 1873, reduced this number to two, the large mouth and the small mouth. After thoroughly exhausting the matter, he allotted thirteen to the small mouth and the balance of nine to the large mouth. The name of the large mouth is micropterus salmoides, and the small mouth micropterus dolomiei. Professor Gill's paper points out the difference, as the jaw b_: ng the most prominent distinguishing mark between the two species. In the large mouth the jaw extends far behind the eye, in the small mouth to a point below it. The two species may often be found together in the same waters, but as a rule they keep at a distance from one another. The small mouth prefers...