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cat, and in a conciliatory voice one uses 

 toward dumb animals, started for him, 

 •calling, "Kitty, Kitt}', here nice little 

 Kitty." The tale is soon ended ; we bur- 

 ied him for a week ! 



Small mouth bass fishing is found in 

 Hasbrook Lake, and no other fish, ex- 

 cepting perch, inhabit its waters. An- 

 other short portage and one arrives at 

 Kennard Lake, where large-mouth bass, 

 pickerel and pike may be caught until 

 ■one tires. Voracious is no name for the 

 appetites of the bass in Kennard, for as 

 soon as your cast is made, and your bait 

 sinks, a tug is felt at the business end of 

 the line. 



At the lakes in the immediate vicinity 

 of Chicago, one's catch is enumerated 

 by telling the number of fish taken, 

 fifteen or twenty as the case may be. 

 In this vicinity they come so swift that 

 count cannot be kept of them, but at 

 night the gunnysack in which they have 

 been thrown is weighed, and from sev- 

 enty-five to one hundred and fifty 

 pounds is registered. 



Sweeney's Lake, a short distance from 

 Kennard, affords the angler excellent 

 opportunities for a try at the masca- 

 longe, for the king of the water seems 

 to abound there. The lake is very 

 muddy, and is an excellent feeding 

 _ground, which probably accounts for the 



numbers of fish in its waters. Pickerel 

 of enormous size, bass, perch and pike 

 inhabit these waters. 



Clear Lake is noted for the goodly size 

 and sweetness of meat of the bass caught 

 in its waters. A little to the west off 

 the thoroughfare, which leads between 

 Tomahawk and Minocqua Lake, Mud 

 Lake is located. Small mascalonge 

 may be caught there qiiickly. By short 

 portages one can reach Horse Head, Carr, 

 Catherine, Knobachein, Rust, Little 

 Limge, and, in fact, a score of other lakes 

 which, I think, have never been named. 



I have fished in many different places 

 and have enjoyed the pastime as only a 

 devotee of the art can, but have never 

 found waters which were so delightful 

 and entrancing as these, both for camp- 

 ing and fishing. It seems that this part 

 of the country has been specially de- 

 signed for the angler, so many conve- 

 nient places can be found to camp. One 

 place especially, on the banks of the 

 Tomahawk, could not be more perfect 

 if built to order. A clear circular space, 

 some three hundred feet in circumfer- 

 ence, with huge pines hemming it in on 

 all sides, forming a most beautiful am- 

 phitheatre not ten yards from the water's 

 edge, was the' spot, and it made one of 

 the prettiest and most comfortable of 

 camping places. 



