FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



deeper water. Fishermen are accustomed to at- 

 tempt to catch him in the St. Lawrence River and 

 its tributaries, and in many of the Canadian lakes, by 

 trolling for him with a spoon and about fifty yards 

 of line at the stern of a moving boat, usually in the 

 current of the rivers or the deeper parts of the lake, 

 and they generally attach a live frog to one of the 

 hooks of the trolling-spoon. When the fish is 

 hooked, the first object of the oarsman is to keep 

 him from darting under the boat, and thereby, 

 perhaps, breaking the line ; while the fisherman 

 uses every effort to keep the line taut, and at the 

 same time give him plenty when he makes a sud- 

 den burst, as he frequently does. The average 

 fish, of a weight of fifteen to twenty pounds, will 

 keep an able-bodied man hard at work for a half 

 hour before he is successfully landed ; and as he 

 becomes exhausted, and is drawn nearer to the boat, 

 it is usually necessary to hit him on the head with 

 the boat hook before he can be drawn aboard. 

 This, however, is a crude way of catching him. 



To fully enjoy the sport of landing one of the 

 gamest fish in America, the angler should take an 

 ordinary salmon rod, and attach thereto a large 

 multiplying reel containing from one hundred and 

 fifty to three hundred yards of salmon line, and a 

 small silver trolling-spoon to one of the hooks of 

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