Show A queer catch the most peculiar experience I1 ever had fishing said col walton accord-ing to tho express was in the st lawrence river I1 had a bite which I1 thought must be a largae musk alonge after half an hours play with the fish there was a liard jerk and then he same in easily when landed it proved to be a pickerel measuring thirty inches in length for twenty inches he was to the bone the skin and scales being entirely removed the hook had caught him under the forward fin and he had evidently not bitten it the fish was dead when he waslanded in the boat in that way I1 knew that the bait had been taken by a larger fish of some kind that had partly swallowed the pickerel and in his greed had taken my bait too he had succeeded in escaping but the hook caught in the pickerel and robbed the big fish of hah meal I1 have never had a like es anny other time and I1 have been an enthusiastic fisherman for thirty years |