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a deer's tail. In the northern part of Lake Michigan and in Lake 

 Superior this fish is in great perfection, and when first caught is, I 

 think, equal to the salmon in firmness of flesh and richness of flavour. 



" In July, 1 844, the writer was crossing the lake in a schooner, 

 and taking a line which he found on hoard (the signal halliards), with 

 a deer's tail made fast to one end, and a good-sized cod-hook, he be- 

 gan to fish. About fifty yards of line were let out, the schooner going 

 about five knots. In about half an hour he had a bite, and hauled in 

 his fish ten feet, when the hook broke and he was lost. He put on 

 another hook, and soon hooked a second trout, which, after a short 

 struggle, parted the line, carrying off about six yards of it. 



"The Brook or Speckled Trout. This beautiful fish is not 

 found in any of the streams putting into the lake south of Green 

 Bay ; but north of this point, both on the Winconsin and Michigan 

 shores, it abounds in every river and brook. In the rapids of the 

 Sault St. Marie, they are found in immense numbers and of a very 

 large size, being frequently taken of three, four and even five pounds, 

 with a piece of salt pork for bait. Fly-fishers have great sport there, 

 both with this and the preceding species, which has been taken at the 

 foot of the rapids with a large salmon-fly. Lake Superior is however 

 the Paradise of the fly-fisher, as every stream that empties into that 

 great body of water is full of trout. A friend of the writer who, in 

 1840, went from Mackinau in a canoe to Sault Ste. Marie, up the 

 lake of the Bois Brule river, which he ascended to its source, and 

 then descended the St. Croix to the Mississippi, supported a com- 

 pany of six persons with his fly-rod. Wherever they encamped, he 

 could get trout enough for a meal in five minutes ; and in some of 

 these unfished and virgin streams the fish were of immense size. No 

 need here of green drake, red hackle, or white miller ; two duck's 

 feathers tied to a hook. These streams are alive with three-pounders. 



" The Muskalonge, (Esox Estor). It is the opinion of common 

 observers, and some fishermen, that this is only an overgrown picke- 

 rel ; but to the careful observer, many distinctive characters are ob- 

 vious. He is a shorter and thicker fish, with a smaller head, than 



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