2 54 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



Salmo fontinalis, but their tactics after being hooked reveal 

 their true family quickly, as they set out at once on a grand 

 exploration of the bottom. 



"I have also taken this fish with fly at the Sysladobsis and 

 Grand lakes, Maine." 



Thus far we have been considering the characteristics of 

 the fish, and the methods of his capture that are used in the 

 smaller lakes during the summer months. But in the Great 

 Lakes no such preparations are necessary. In them the 

 water is so cold that he is not confined to the deeper por- 

 tions, but is found very near the surface, certainly in the 

 northern parts of Lakes Michigan and Huron, and in Lake 

 Superior. In these waters, from early spring until late tall, 

 our friend Namaycush may be caught, with trolling line or 

 rod, from sailing vessel, yacht, or boat, in waters that range 

 during the whole summer from 55 degrees in the neighbor- 

 hood of the Manitous or Thunder Bay, to 38 or 40 degrees 

 in the waters of Lake Superior. No wonder that under such 

 bracing circumstances the Trout is lusty and frolicsome, and 

 ready to take his chances at any time in an encounter with 

 the fascinating and mysterious spoon. 



I have a dream, which sometime I hope to realize. Others 

 have proved its worth and pleasures, but for me it is still in 

 the vague "to be." It is to take a Mackinac boat and a coup- 

 le of trusty Indians from the Sault, and coast north along 

 the shore of Lake Superior, with not more than two or three 

 friends for company, putting in at night, or during stormy 

 weather, into one of the numerous shelters that the guides 

 know very well, and fishing during the day, either from the 

 boat or the rocks; enjoying meanwhile the balm-laden air, 

 and the glorious scenery that belong inseparably to this 

 lake. Even the prosaic cyclopaedia enters into the realm 

 of the romantic in describing this wildly picturesque re- 

 gion: 



"The rivers of the North Shore of Lake Superior flow 



