62 LAKE SUPERIOR. 



Rose the firs with cones upon them, 

 Bright before it beat the weather, 

 Beat the clear and sunny water, 

 Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water." 



Such a day is admirably adapted for taking lake- 

 trout, and no sooner had we entered the bay than our 

 lines were arranged for the purpose. 



The Namaycush — pronounced more nearly like 

 Namsegoose, with the accent on the second syllable — 

 the Salmo Amethystus of our ichthyologists, the 

 Truite du Lac of the Canadian, and the Mackinaw 

 Salmon of the American, inhabits Lake Superior 

 throughout its length and breadth, is captured along 

 the shores and in the bays, and when smoked, fur- 

 nishes the principal food of the Indian. It prefers a 

 rocky uneven bottom, where the water is neither ex- 

 cessively deep nor very shallow, and during the 

 summer months bites readily at any of the ordinary 

 trolling-spoons. An ivory imitation-fish is especial- 

 ly attractive ; and an old-fashioned bowl-spoon, 

 elongated with bright tin on one side and red on 

 the other, is in general use. 



Whenever the Indian is paddling in his canoe 

 over any of the favorite localities, he trolls with the 

 latter bait, which is sold at the stores in the Sault; 

 and to make it imitate more accurately the herring 

 it is intended to represent, he attaches the line to his 

 paddle. By this means a peculiar darting motion is 

 given to the spoon which is said to be very fatal. 

 Buel's patent spoons, whether with feathers or with- 

 out, are successful ; and so little particular is this 



