262 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



The characteristics of the Mackinac Trout were fully shown 

 during this outing at Stannard's Rock. Not a single fish 

 broke water after being struck, nor did we see them at all 

 until just as they were being brought to gaff. They showed 

 no tricky ways, and only ordinary caution was necessary in 

 boating them. But they were very active in the water; 

 again and again as one fish was being reeled in. he would be 

 followed by others, apparently out of wanton curiosity, who 

 would come close to the boat, and then, with a saucy flirt of 

 the tail, turn away, only, perhaps, themselves made captive, 

 to be followed in turn a minute later by their still untram- 

 meled brethren. 



Lake Gogebic furnished wonderful fishing when its waters 

 were still new to the angler — so did the Eagle Waters — so 

 have many other newly opened-up lakes and streams which 

 now have lost their pristine glory; but here is an apparently 

 inexhaustible source of fish sport, if only commerce, with its 

 insatiable greed, does not deplete it. It is so far removed from 

 land, and the fishing is attended with so much of uncertainty 

 and danger on account of the elements, that it must be always 

 an open question whether the sportsman-angler will meet 

 with the fulfilment of his plans. We were exceptionally for- 

 tunate; the weather could not have been better if it had been 

 "made to order;" even a few days earlier or later, in our 

 own case, and rough weather would have made it necessary 

 for us to forego our pleasure. 



Other yachting parties have visited this rock and carried 

 away immense catches. A well-known Chicago club-man is 

 said to have caught over 2,000 pounds of fish in one day's 

 fishing over these grounds, and our captain of my first yacht- 

 ing trip herein mentioned caught over 1,000 pounds in a sim- 

 ilar length of time. This seems very "hoggish," as one looks 

 at the total, but in our own case the fish were given to the 

 crew, and salted down by them for the market as soon as we 

 reached Marquette, thereby furnishing a material addition to 



