36£ LAKE TROUT FISHING. 



The commonest way, by far, of angling for the Common Lake 

 Trout is with a stout drop-Hne and a Cod-hook baited with a 

 piece of salt pork, or the belly of a Yellow Perch or Brook 

 Trout, let down into ten or fifteen fathom water. The fish 

 bites, gorges his bait, for which you may allow him a few 

 seconds^ time, after which he is hauled in by main force. He 

 is very indifferent eating, but perhaps the best way of preparing 

 him when quite fresh out of water, is to crimp him to the bone 

 after stunning him with a heavy blow on the head, wrap him 

 up in a cover of thick greased paper, and roast him without 

 removing the entrails, which will come away at a touch when 

 he is cooked, under the ashes of a wood fire. 



The Greatest Mackinaw Salmon, or Namaycush, and the 

 Masamacush, or Arctic Charr, the latter a delicious and very 

 voracious fish, are both taken in the same manner, in very deep 

 water, in the summer, and through holes cut in the ice in the 

 dead of winter. The favoiu-ite bait for both these fishes, is the 

 belly of the yellow or grey Sucking Carp, or a piece of the raw 

 heart or liver of a deer. 



The Mackinaw fish is, however, a far bolder fish than any of 

 his j-ace, and occasionally follows any shining bait or squid up 

 to the very surface of the water, if it is sunk by means of a 

 weight, and then trolled sharply upward and onward to the 

 surface. A piece of bright tin, with a rag of scarlet cloth 

 attached to it, is, I am informed, found to be very successful 

 and killing in the hands of the Indians. If this be the case, of 

 which I am well assured, there can be little or no doubt that 

 the deadly spoon, as it is called, an implement shaped precisely 

 like the bowl of a table spoon, of bright metal, silver-washed 



