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your line out your boat should be in motion to keep your 

 bait from twisting around the main line. 



There is opportunity for fine fishing in Lake Huron, 

 which will be utilized one of these days when yachting 

 shall have been developed in our grand inland lakes, as 

 it will be in time. Trolling for salmon -trout can be done 

 very successfully with sailing craft, all the way from 

 Saginaw Bay to Mackinaw, and about five or ten miles 

 from shore. The ordinary trolling tackle is to be used, 

 much in the same way that it is used on the sea coast for 

 blue fish, but the fish taken will occasionally exceed 

 twenty pounds in weight, and will test the angler's tackle 

 and muscles. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



FISHING FOR BASS AND OTHER FISH. 



BLACK BASS. These fish are taken with the fly either 

 cast as in trout fishing or trolled behind a boat and with 

 spinning tackle. They are also caught with bait and 

 show a preference for fresh water helgramite and crawfish 

 and, for small living roach, dace and yellow perch. 

 They are a voracious and predacious fish and will destroy 

 any other kind that occupies any small waters with 

 them, even the pickerel standing no chance against 

 them. They are courageous as well, and never give up 

 their lives till after they have made a good fight. As 

 soon as they are hooked they throw themselves out of 

 the water with a rush and endeavor to smash the line, 

 and shake their heads fiercely in their attempts to dis- 

 lodge the hook. When they jump out of the water it is 

 well to drop the tip, as, if they succeed in flinging their 

 broad sides on the line, they are apt either to snap it or 



