TROLLING FOR LAKE TROUT. 73 



SET-LINES FOR LAKE-FISHING. 



I HAVE only to add to the above complete, and, I think, perfect de- 

 scription of lake trolling, the following account of the manner used in 

 Seneca, and many of the other small lakes, for taking fish with the 

 set-line. 



It is not a sporting, but it is a very killing way of taking fish ; and 

 there is some fun, after all said and done, in making a haul. 



First, the set-line is baited with live Minnows, Shiners, or best 

 Lake Herring, Coregonus Artedi. Anchor one end of the line firmly 

 near the shore, in fifteen feet water ; thence run directly out into the 

 lake from a quarter of a mile to two miles, with a very strong hempen 

 cord, having short whip-cord bait-lines, with hooks armed on gimp 

 attached at every sixteen feet ; the depth varying from twenty-five to 

 five hundred feet. 



The same method is much used in Scotland, and off the coast of 

 Newfoundland, for deep-sea fishing, and with immense success ; the 

 bait there being the Herring proper, or Capelin, and the depth from 

 ten to fifty fathoms. 



In the British Provinces this deep-sea line is known as the " bul- 

 tow." 



Whether for lake or deep-sea fishing, this is a very dirty, laborious, 

 unscientific, and unsporting mode of killing fish ; and there is nothing 

 to recommend it but the immensity of pot to which it ministers. 



