The sun., 1916-09-17
KILLIE Suffering
BEST PICKEREL LURE
Bait Should Re Cast lnshore
and Hauled Into Deeper
Water.

A. g. Gurnaer OF PCS East Thirty
second street. Brooklyn. recently re-
turned from n weeks p~iclierel fishing
trip at Ulster Heights, y. ". 10 miles
by auto from New York's City Hall.
Here ere his observations. written for
the benefit OF sur readers:
First-That the best way to catch
pickerel Is for one man to row the boat
fifteen feet from shore while the other
stands up in the aft portion. casting
right into the lowest water inc skitter-
ing his bait int deep water.
knIi~ BAIT Never Failed.
second-Live kill!e was the only bait
that never failed. We tried spoons.
plugs and phantom minnows II even
live frogs, bu, they were OF no avail.
Third-We hooked our m!nnow right
through his middle" and put a float
four feet above the killie. then allowed
cork to tioat out thirty to fifty feet
back of the boat n just moved the
boat fast enough to keep the bait In
motion.
s'Ds ~ u 'sh VIC "ossD
back up the boat and wait for the Ash
to turn the bait in his mouth and start
on with II. and In this way We lost a
good many for two reasons.
We either pulled too quickly after a
strike or else waited too long. II We
pulled too quickly the pickerel would
release the killie and II would cone up
all mangled n dead.
IL we waited too long the plckerel
would manage to work the killie of the
hook and leave the empty hook behind.
So W. II. Kent thought IT wOild he a
good idea TO take a long shank hook
and run this through the tail Of a killie.
then take a snellcd hook and pass
through the eye OF the first hook and
pass the point OF the snelled hook
through he head of the killie. which
would straighten the killie out. and We
could cast with It. snd by skittcring 1t
ought to make an attractive bait.
1t surely did. and II reduced our
losses from 80 to 33 Ia per cent. and
We can recommend It to any one.
Fourth-Ncver go pickerel fishing un-
less you have 4 man at the oars who
can handle a boat TO a nicely. A great
deal depends on this.
BEST Results In shallow Water.
iotifs tI0k thStluR ~ lItkO
the grass near shore and skittering the
bait out toward deeper water was the
most successful way OF getting the big
ones, Straight trolling In deep water did
not yield satisfactory results, which made
US believe that pickerel are to be found
In shallow water nea shore, the nearer
the better.
Sixth--Three times during our six
days fishing did pickerel strike at the
cork (Which would move In Jumps
through the water) n once a FOUNDER
struck ut a swivel six inches above the
hook. entangllng his teeth so that We
landed him.
Seventh-In allowing our line 70 drag
after the boat it must have touched the
belly of a big pickerel. for he Immediately
jumped a foot and a half in the air In
a slanting direction n In hitting the
water he stuck around until our bait
came along and We Gagged" him.
Fighth-One morning after breakfast
while +. T. Kent was rowing and the
writer casting. he observed a string
hanging from a tree over the water and
said 1t moved. He also noticed that II
was In motion and on closer examina-
ton II proved to be four frogs tied one
foot apart on a heavy string that some
ono had thrown up in this tree. Two
were dead and the other two we let 20.
Both had nothing but contempt for a
person who would do n trick like that.
Ninth-The bullheads In this lake are
large and plentiful, One man and his
wife got %sixty-nine one afternoon. largest
Weighing pound and a half. These fish
are delicious eating hut avoided by most
folk due to difficulty OF sklnning.
Natives cut the skin through all
around the body Just back OF the head,
then slit the skin down or the top Of
the back and start skinning on top OF
the back just back Of the head. II
| makes the lob easy.