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trout and whitefish have been shipped from these two points 

 within the past four months. The greater portion of these 

 are caught in nets, set through the ice, though a great many 

 men are constantly employed in catching with hook and line. 



Holes are cut through the ice where the water is thirty to 

 sixty feet deep, and a hook, baited with cut bait or pork- 

 rind, is dropped down within a few feet of the bottom, and 

 is then kept moving up and down. When the fisherman feels 

 a strike, he gives the line a sharp jerk, and when he finds that 

 he has fastened his fish, he runs with the line until the fish is 

 brought through the hole and landed on the ice. This is 

 rendered easy by cutting the hole much larger at the bottom 

 than at the top. A day's catch varies from twenty up to one 

 hundred pounds, though occasionally a man has been known 

 to take as high as four or five hundred pounds in a day. Only 

 trout are usually caught with hook and line, the whitefish 

 being all taken in nets. The fish bring four cents per 

 pound on the ice. The men protect themselves from the 

 severity of the weather by erecting wind-breakers near their 

 stands. This is done by planting stakes in the ice, and 

 spreading blankets, or pieces of canvas over them. In sum- 

 mer time the hand-fishing is done from boats, with equally as 

 good success as in winter. 



This is a very popular resort for fishermen and sportsmen 

 during the suipmer. Nearly all the streams emptying into 

 Lake Superior teem with brook-trout, and the small inland 

 lakes, which are very numerous, contain great numbers of 

 black-bass, pike, pickerel and muskalonge. Some marvel- 

 ous accounts are given of the great catches of brook-trout, 

 that have been made in this section, and were they not sub- 

 stantiated by men of undoubted veracity, we could scarcely 

 credit them. A gentleman, his wife and daughter, who spent 

 several weeks here last summer, frequently caught as many as 



