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ment of both boat and occupants, and yet allow the 

 fisherman to place his bait within striking distance 

 of the fish. 



In this case the angler's success is due entirely to 

 the skill and forethought of the man who rows in know- 

 ing where the fishes are and approaching them without 

 the slightest splash or disturbance, allowing the mer- 

 est angling novice who will sit perfectly still and draw 

 a bait through the water at rod's length to frequently 

 take a catch of fish which will make the expert bait- 

 caster's mouth water with envy; and I will venture 

 to say that every man who fishes in this manner and 

 makes a big catch gives to himself the sole credit 

 thereof, and in his harmless vanity imagines himself 

 to be a wonderfully clever fisherman, little thinking 

 what an important part the other fellow who rowed 

 the boat played in their capture. 



The third successful style of fishing is trolling from 

 a boat, rowing slowly along the deeper stretches with 

 a trolling spoon following about seventy or eighty feet 

 behind the boat; and the man who trolls is certainly 

 not to be accused of laziness, for if there is any mode 

 of catching fish with rod and line which keeps a man 

 continually on the move it is that in which the trolling 

 spoon is used. 



The group of lakes to which I will first call attention 

 are Sand Lake, Crooked Lake, Fourth or Miltimore 

 Lake, Slough Lake and Hastings Lake, in Lake County, 

 111. These are reached from the Lake Villa depot on 

 the Wisconsin Central, a distance of fifty miles from 

 Chicago, and are all located within easy distance of 

 Smith Wright's house, the Sand Lake Hotel, which 

 lies about two miles southeast of the depot. Sand 

 Lake faces the house on the north, its nearest shore 

 within a hundred yards of the front door. Slough 

 Lake is about a quarter of a mile southwest, Crooked 

 Lake a mile northwest, Fourth or Miltimore Lake half 

 a mile south, aud Hastings Lake about three-quarters 

 of a mile away north. The reason I have grouped these 



