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Title: American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nd line any month in the year and with any sort of bait, grass-hoppers, angleworms, grubs, small minnows, pieces of mussel, or piecesoffish; and it will even rise, and freely, too, on occasion, to the artifi-cial fly; we have taken it skittering, and also on thetrolling-spoon.It is easily taken through the ice in winter, when small minnows arethe best bait, as they are perhaps at other times. The yellow perch isnot a great fighter,— its small size precludes that possibility,— but itbites well, and a 2-pounder, or one even half that size, is a fish wellworth ones while to take. If it be angled for in deep water,—say 25to 40 feet,— in water that is cold and pure, and with light tackle, it willbe found able to make a fight quite enough to please any except themost blase of anglers. Besides, the yellow perch is a fish that can be caught by thewomen and children, who do not, as a rule, seek the more noble game-fishes; and many an inland summer resort is made vastly more attrac- 366
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Oh Yellow Perch; Ringed Perch tive because our wives and children who are spending the summer atthe little inland lake are always able to bring in good strings of deliciousyellow perch. As Thoreau has said in Walden Pond: It is a truefish, such as the angler loves to put into his basket or hang on top ofhis willow twig on shady afternoons, along the banks of the streams.Only the yellow perch is by preference a fish of the small lakes ratherthan of the streams. This perch is gregarious and may usually be found in schools. Perch, like the Tartar clans, in troops remove,And, urged by famine or by pleasure, rove;But if one prisoner, as in war, you seize,Youll prosper, master of the camp with ease;For, like the wicked, unalarmed they viewTheir fellows perish, and their path pursue. Artificial propagation, in the full sense of the term, has not beenattempted with the yellow perch, but mature fish have been placed inaquariums and their naturally fertilized eggs hatched. The eggs ar

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