FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



the winds strong in their blowing ; power, 

 endurance, and skill requisite in the guide who 

 managed the canoe. A phantom minnow pro- 

 vided with only one hook, or a live minnow or 

 strip of pork on a single hook, with sometimes 

 a flashing spinner just above the bait, served as a 

 taking attraction. Trolling with two rods proved 

 to be exciting sport, and while I naturally wished 

 for landlocked salmon, I secured a fine laker. 

 But I did not know my old acquaintance. In 

 the chilled water, he was a fish of a different color 

 and mood. Baits were strongly taken, and his 

 rushes resembled those of a favorite and noted 

 football hero. Proudly would he tear about, at 

 times shaking his head fiercely in his attempts to 

 get free. He cared less for the bottom than he 

 did for the middle of the lake, and equalled the 

 landlocked fellows in his wild turnings. If he 

 had only learned in his young life to make a leap 

 from the surface, it appeared to me his gamy 

 battling would have nearly equalled that of the 

 " little salmon." So I had to change my mind 

 utterly, for now I was perfectly willing to class 

 him with game fish, and I believe he is such 

 under the favorable conditions I have pictured. 

 I like him now as much and as fervently as once 

 I hated him ; but I should not try to capture him 



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