This fish, which is the king of the pickerel tribe, grows to a great size and gives good sport. He is strong and willful, and is much better on the table than his smaller kinsmen. He is taken by trolling with a row-boat and what is known as the trolling spoon, - a piece of tin wheeling around a pair of hooks. Sometimes feathers are tied around the shank of the hooks, and while the outside or face of the tin has its natural shining color, the back is sometimes made red, sometimes black or copper colored, and so forth. We prefer the trolling spoon without feathers for mascallonge, but we often use a double gang of hooks and put a piece of the throat of the fish on the lower pair. Then if the fish strikes and does not hook himself, he gets a taste of food and will often come again. In case minnow is used either for mascallonge or pickerel, it is fastened on a gang of small hooks that are thrust into its back and sides so as to bend it in order that it may turn round and round in the water, - "spin well" as it is technically termed.