Show A queer catch the most peculiar experience I 1 ever had fishing haul col ballon according to the was in the st law rence river I 1 had a bite which I 1 thought must be after half an hours play with the fish there lias a hanl jerk and then lie abc in easily when landed it proved to be a pickerel thirty inches in length for twenty inches lie was scraped to the bone the and scales beinar entirely removed the hook biad him under the forwald fin and he had evidently not bidun it the fish was dead when he w ii lidded in the boat in that liay I 1 knew that the bait had been taken by a larger n sli of some kind eliat had partly sw allowed alie pickerel and in lii i breed eliud aiken ny bait too lie had succeeded in escaping ant alic hook caught in the pickerel and blobbed lobbed tho bl lia of his meal I 1 leavo ner ne r biad a like experience peri ence at any other time and I 1 leave been an for thirty years |