NORTHERN INLAND FISHES. 3OI 



Croix, Loch Lomond, near St. John, N. R., etc., etc. It grows to a 

 great size and weight, attaining as high as forty-two pounds. It 

 is taken by trolling with a spoon, or a "gang " of hooks baited 

 with minnow, in the months of May and June, and later by deep 

 trolling at a depth of seventy to one hundred feet. In October it 

 can also be taken with a troll when it resorts to sandy or pebbly 

 bars, at the outlets of the lakes to spawn, and is then speared in 

 great numbers. Seth Green, in a carefully prepared paper ad- 

 dressed to the " Forest and Stream," has given the follow- 

 ing minute directions for angling for these fish, which methods 

 apply alike to other (supposed) varieties, to be enumerated here- 

 after : 



" They are taken with silver and brass spoon hooks, by leading 

 the line so that the spoon runs near the bottom. But they are 

 taken sometimes at the top of the water and sometimes half way 

 down from the surface, and by trolling with three lines at one 

 time — one at the surface, one half way down and one near the 

 bottom. Another way is to anchor a buoy out in deep water and 

 cut fish in pieces, varying in size from a hickory-nut to a butter- 

 nut, and scattering the pieces around the buoy for some days ; 

 then anchor your boat to the buoy, using a piece of the same kind 

 of bait on your hook that you had been in the habit of scattering 

 around your buoy ; fish near the bottom and give it a little motion 

 by giving your Hne short jerks. The buoy should not be baited 

 the day you go fishing. 



" Another way is to have a rod and reel and four or five hundred 

 feet of fine strong line, and if the water is deep put a lead sinker 

 weighing three-quarters of a pound on the end of your line, and 

 tie a single gut leader twelve feet long on the main line twelve 

 feet above your sinker. For hooks, you should use nine number 

 six Limerick hooks, tied three together, back to back, so that they 

 look like a three-pronged grappel. Tie them on a single gut lead- 

 er, about two and one-half inches apart, and you have a gang of 

 hooks five inches long. Put two very small brass swivels on your 

 leader. Use the kind of small fish for bait that the trout are 

 used to eating in your lake. Hook one of the upper hooks through 

 the under and upper jaw so that his mouth will be closed. Then 

 hook one of the lower hooks through the back near the tail in such 



