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Title: Fisherman's lures and game-fish food : with colored pictures from life of various creatures fish eat and new improved artificial imitation floating nature lures and chart-plans to show the haunts where fish feed on them in lake and stream
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926
Subjects: Fishes Fishing
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ces and most likely spots where bassand pike are usually found, also the food theytake and the different baits suited to those con-ditions. Neither bass nor pike are by nature wan-derers; they never stray far from the chosen local-ity; and when this has once been chosen—alwayswith a view to the best feeding-ground—theystay there, unless their food-supply by some reasonis cut off—^as, for instance, when bottom creepers,like hellgrammites, have changed to the adultstate. Then a new food-supply is sought—min-nows, frogs, and other foods. In lakes of largeextent, like Chautauqua, the home of the bandedmuskellunge (Lucius ohiensis), the fish food-sup-ply is ample, not only for the muskellunge, butfor bass and other fish, so that little or no changeof feeding-ground is necessary. Then again, afterthe young have grown to a fair size, cannibalismprovides considerable food for various species,notably bass, pickerel, pike, and muskellunge.The prolific perch, which by some means or other
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Lake plan to show where bass and pike take their natural food 9i FISHERM.VNS LIRES is found in every lake and pond, furnishes prob-ably more fish food than any one other species,with the sunfishes a good second.As stated in the previous chapter concerningtrout, the same rule applies to other fishes; thatis, the largest fish are always found where foodis most abundant. If fish stay where food is scarce,it is only because they are unable to do betteror to migrate elsewhere. In describing the annexedlake plan, beginning at the inlet. A, which is usuallysandy shallows and the part where minnows andother small fishes congregate—it will often befound that schools of bass haunt that section,especially at evenings, going back to deeper waterin the davtime. Crawfish often choose to maketheir abiding-place in the shallows close to thefresh cool water flowing in the lake. Among theroots of submerged tree trunks, at B, is the favoritehaunt of pickerel, and sometimes large bass. Insuch a place f

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