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ious angler when fishing at a buoy, after his boat 

 is fast to it, throws over at regular intervals 

 of a few minutes a handful of white beans 

 which, as they sink, appear to attract the fish. 

 Use a heavy sinker, bait with a dead minnow 

 and keep it in motion by jerking or jigging 

 it up and down for a foot or eighteen inches 

 from the bottom. 



There is another form of the lake trout popu- 

 larly known as the " siscowet " or " siskowitz " 

 (Cristivomer namaycush siscowet), which is said 

 to be only found in Lake Superior. It has a 

 shorter head, but the same general coloration 

 as its cousin the lake trout, and there are no 

 material structural differences between the two 

 fish other than the shortness and breadth of 

 the head and the unusual fatness of the flesh of 

 the siscowet ; the deeper the water in which the 

 fish is found the greater the richness of the 

 flesh. The market fishermen of Lake Superior 

 recognize two species or forms of the siscowet, 

 one living in water six hundred to a thousand 

 feet in depth, of which Mr. R. O. Sweeny states 

 that at this enormous depth the pressure on the 

 wooden pieces of the nets used in catching the 

 siscowet causes these symmetrical blocks of 



