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at a brisk, lively pace. A large Lake Trout will seldom 
trouble himself to follow a bait that is moving fast away 
from him; consequently the bait must possess the 
speciality of spinning, at all events moderately well, or 
it will not spin at all. 
Place-—The place to trail over is where darkness and 
light seem to meet in the water—that is, where the bank 
begins to shelve rapidly, say at a depth of from 9 to 15 | 
or 20 feet, according to the nature of the basin : a much 
greater or much less depth is useless. This is a rather 
important point, as thereupon it depends mainly 
whether the bait is ever seen by the fish it is wished to 
catch. 
The food of the Lake Trout consists of small fish. 
These are not to be found in any great depths of water, 
but, on the contrary, on the sloping shores of the lake, up 
which therefore the Trout naturally comes at feeding 
time in search of them, stopping short of the shallows. 
The Ferox is himself poor eating, but shows mag- 
nificent sport, and fights like a bull-dog. 
With regard to the ordinary brown Lake Trout, though 
they may not unfrequently be taken at night when 
trolling for the Ferox, they are rather day than night- 
feeders, and usually take best before noon. 
In very large waters, where the size of the Trout is in 
keeping with that of the lake, the tackle and bait 
above described will answer every purpose. In smaller 
waters, however, and under ordinary circumstances, a 
