The most artistic way of taking pickerel in summer is with the spear, but they are generally taken with a spoon and line bait. They furnish poor food and worse sport, as a general thing, and are not entitled to any law. They are better to use as food for black bass than for man. During win-ter they and perch are caught through the ice in a way to furnish a good deal of amusement. A number of holes are cut through the ice some distance apart, and two sticks tacked together in the shape of a cross are laid across each hole. The longest part of the cross reaches over to the ice on both sides, but the other piece is too short to strike the edges. To one end of the latter the line is made fast, and as soon as a fish bites his jerk raises the other end, which can be seen at some distance, and may be decorated with a tiny flag. The fisherman is kept running from one to another, and as he has from twenty-five to fifty lines fishing all the while, he is busy if fish are at all plentiful. A similar method of fishing may be followed in summer by having a flat float of a piece of ordinary board with a stick run up and down through the center and weighted at the bottom. The line is fastened to the upper end, that half being painted white, and a bite reverses the position and shows the lower half, which is painted red. As pickerel do not always pouch the bait when they first strike it, the line may be coiled on the float and slightly hitched in a notch so that it will run off at first and give the pickerel a chance to move to a quiet spot for his deliberate meal. For this fishing, live bait is needed, minnows being the best, and should be fastened by running the hook just under the skin near the back fin, so as not to injure them. If the line is tied to the leg of a tame goose, there will be seen considerable excitement when this new sort of angler strikes a large fish. Pickerel are also taken in small ponds, where they love to lie around the water lilies and long grass, by fishing for them with a long rod and small fish. The bait is tossed here and there into the openings among the weeds, is twitched up and down in a way to somewhat similate the action of a living fish. When a fish bites he is unceremoniously hauled out.