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of young white-fish, stating that for a great part of the year they live in 

 much deeper water than is resorted to by the young white-fish, though 

 Trout straying into shoal water, or migrating upon shallow spawning 

 grounds, would undoubtedly prey upon the smaller white-fish as readily 

 as they would upon any other. 



It is not uncommon for a Trout to swallow a fish nearly as large as 

 itself. One measuring twenty-three inches was brought ashore at Two 

 Rivers, Wis., from the mouth of which some three inches of the tail of a 

 fish (Z<5'/a maculosa) projected. The "lawyer," when taken from the 

 Trout, measured about seventeen inches. "Their exceeding voracity," 

 writes Mr. Milner, " induces them to fill their maws with singular articles 

 ot food. Where the steamers or vessels pass, the refuse of the table is 

 eagerly seized upon, and I have taken from the stomach a raw peeled 

 potato and a piece of sliced liver, and it is not unusual to find pieces of 

 corn-cobs, in the green-corn season." 



Neither the Mackinaw Trout nor the Siscowet is a game fish in high 

 esteem, though the latter is taken by trolling with a bright-colored fiy, 

 with a minnow bait, or a spoon-hook. It does not rise like the Brook 

 Trout, and its play is likely to be sluggish and sulky. It is also taken 

 with a bottom line on grounds Avhich have been previously baited. The 

 Indians 'of the Sault Ste. Marie display great skill in spearing the Macki- 

 naw Trout through the ice, luring them within reach by means of decoy 

 fishes of wood and lead. By far the largest quantities are taken in pounds 

 and gill-nets in the Great Lakes. 



In Lake Superior Trout are caught principally in September, October^ 

 and November in pounds and gill-nets. Formerly they were fished for 

 with hooks only, but of late years this practice has been abandoned by 

 ])rofessional fishermen. In the Green Bay region large Trout are caught 

 ])rincipally with hooks, though in the western i)art of the bay and in 

 Oconto Bay many are taken in gill and pound nets in deep water. Those 

 captured in the gill-nets are thought by the fishermen to be meshed, for 

 the most part, while these nets are being lifted ; tlie Trout dart after the 

 other fish which have been gilled and thus become entangled. In Lake 

 Huron they are caught entirely with gill-nets. They may be taken with 

 hooks baited in the ordinary way, but can hardly be said to afford sport 

 to the angler, since they allow themselves to be pulled to the surface as 

 easily and unresistingly as codfish. 



