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at a brisk, lively pace. A large Lake Trout will seldom 

 trouble himself to follow a bait that is moving fast away 

 from him ; consequently the bait must possess the 

 speciality of spinning, at all events moderately well, or 

 it will not spin at all. - wM 



Place. — The place to trail over is where darkness and 

 light seem to meet in the water — that is, where the bank 

 begins to shelve rapidly, say at a depth of from 9 to 15 

 or 20 feet, according to the nature of the basin : a much 

 greater or much less depth is useless. This is a rather 

 important point, as thereupon it depends mainly 

 whether the bait is ever seen by the fish it is wished to 

 catch. 



The food of the Lake Trout consists of small fish. 

 These are not to be found in any great depths of water, 

 but, on the contrary, on the sloping shores of the lake, up 

 which therefore the Trout naturally comes at feeding 

 time in search of them, stopping short of the shallows. 



The Ferox is himself poor eating, but shows mag- ' 1 

 nificent sport, and fights like a bull-dog. 



With regard to the ordinary brown Lake Trout, though 

 they may not unfrequently be taken at night when 

 trolling for the Ferox, they are rather day than night- 

 feeders, and usually take best before noon. 



In very large waters, where the size of the Trout is in 

 keeping with that of the lake, the tackle and bait 

 above described will answer every purpose. In smaller 

 waters, however, and under ordinary circumstances, a 



