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clear water lake fed by abundance of springs. In this 

 lake splendid specimens of the large lake trout known 

 as the Mackinaw trout are often caught, and give the 

 toiling land-looker and settler a dinner of a fish not to 

 be despised. That they are certainly trout, needs but 

 the proof of men who have lived in Michigan where 

 the Mackinaw trout can be had at almost an)' time 

 at the hotel tables. 



Mr. lohn C. Howard, of Saginaw, engaged in the 

 lumber business before moving up to Grand Rapids, 

 has caught them frequently, and often while in the 

 woods, and his supply of meat has run short, simply 

 took a spoon hook from his pack and getting into a 

 canoe, has trolled but a little ways and caught a 

 fish sufficient in size for a supper for three men. 



Captain Joseph Crowther, operating a steamer on 

 the upper Mississippi, knows the lake trout thoroughly, 

 and catches many of these fishes every season in Po- 

 kegama lake. 



A short distance east of Pokegama, is another 

 lake, named Trout Lake, from the fact that such num- 

 bers of beautiful lake trout are caught there. In Jan- 

 uary, I ''95, while visiting at the hotel, Grand Rapids, 

 one was caught through the ice, and brought into the 

 village, weighing about seventeen pounds, a splendid 

 fish and having all the marks of the Superior lake 

 trout. He was caught with a piece of bacon, cut like 

 a strip from a fish, and sunk through the ice. 



In March, two were caught weighing about three 

 pounds each, as handsome as the proverbial beauty — 

 the brook trout — they could not be bought, as the gen- 

 tleman bringing them to the village had them carefully 

 packed to send to a sister and brother-in-law, who 

 scouted the idea that such trout could be found up in 

 that country, and in streams or lakes whose natural 

 watershed was the Mississipi)i river. 



