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Identifier: americanangler251895harr (find matches)
Title: The American angler
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, William Charles, 1830-1905, ed
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York : (The Angler's Publishing Company)
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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134 TJie American Angler (called red-brook suckers locally) to means to be despised as a table fish, take the lure that they rose within three and in the last ot the winter months, inches of the surface to do so ; that they when the egf^s of the female are ap- have been seen in large shoals in Pine proaching maturity, the roe is a delicious River, jumping in front of the hotel at morsel, equal in flavor and richness to Charlevoix Mills, Mich.; that numbers that of the shad. Having broadened of the so-called hammer-head suck- out so far in treating of the sucker as ers have taken a bait before it reached a line fish, it may be well to tell how to the bottom—this in the Schuylkill catch them, but, as my experience has River, near Phcenixville, Pa.; that they been limited, I relegate the duty to Mr. have been known to rise to the surface S. M. Harper, of Mechanicsburg, O., and seize falling grasshoppers, and have who wrote me some time ago :been caught with this lure trailed on In Febr

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