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LAKI-: TKOUT FLsHLXG. 



Thkse great, ])a(l, coarse luul unsporting fisli, of all tin- thrco 

 varieties, arc very nearly similar in their habits, '}'"& *'^'' ^''•' 

 most part in the deepest i)arts of the ^reat lakes, seeking their 

 fooil in the depths, and very rarely risiii"; to the siu'faee, either 

 for tbod or play. Of these the {^reat Mackinaw Salmon is pcr- 

 liaps the liveliest, and the Common Lake Trout {Su/mu Conjinit, 

 of Dekay), tlie heaviest and most worthless. 



They will scarce ever rise to a lly, and can rarely he taken 

 even with a spinning minnow; with a live bait, however, or a 

 peacock-fly, submerged to a considerable depth, witlj a bullet at 

 the end of two hundred yards of line, played from a still' rod at 

 the stern of a light skilf or canoe moved rapidly through the 

 water by sails or oars, tliey can be eatight with considerable 

 certainty. Win ii ho<iked, however, they are but a heavy, torpid 

 fisli, bearing down with a sullen dead weight, and offering litth 

 more than a pa-ssivc resistance. My friend William T. Porter, 

 wlio constantly fishes in the waters of Hamilton C'uuntv, 

 infomis nie that he has been exceedingly and almost invariabh 

 successful with what seems a very strange and unsiM)rting com- 

 bination, a small fish namely, and a lar^e fly on the same lim . 

 at about a vard's distance iununder. 



