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steps so feeble and casting his fly for a smaller and more 

 beautiful fish. Good anglers may dread a worse fate than 

 becoming confirmed 'boat fishermen' for Lake Trout." 



Personally, I must say that I had a leetle rather fish for Bass 

 or Trout, but I would respond just as readily to a well-backed 

 invitation to go again to "Kitchi-gummi" after lakers, as I 

 would to one that took me among the black flies and "no- 

 see-'ems," and mosquitoes, and underbrush, that are the well- 

 nigh inseparable attendants of the Speckled-sides and Bronze- 

 backers. Namaycush is a good, sturdy, persistent fighter. 

 What if he does lack the vim and abandon of the others? 

 What if, instead of going off in a hundred unexpected, 

 bewildering dashes, he fights it out on one line, however long 

 or short the summer. It is a question of degrees and kind of 

 gameness only. Let the Tarpon fisher assert that there is but 

 one game-fish in the world and that his fish! We refuse 

 to believe him; nor will we allow those who have not 

 tasted the steadfast joys of Lake Trout fishing to underrate 

 those qualities that make him dear to us. 



The methods of taking the Lake Trout differ so materially, 

 and are so much more varied in the smaller lakes, that for 

 the purpose of this paper it will be necessary to give them 

 somewhat in detail. Here, also, I am indebted very largely 

 to the freely granted courtesy of Mr. A. N. Cheney, and to 

 the results of Seth Green's labors. The latter used for deep- 

 water trolling, which is decidedly the most sportsmanlike 

 method, a gang of hooks, which he describes as follows: 



SETH GREEN S GANG. 



"There are several methods of trolling for Salmon Trout, 

 both with trolling-spoon and gang. Nearly all trollers of 



