CHAPTER VI 



THE NAMAYCUSH, THE MASCALONGE 

 AND OTHERS 



THE Great Lakes trout or namaycush trout, 

 Cristivomer namaycush, and the mascalonge, 

 Esox masquinongy, are the "big game" fishes of 

 the sweet-water angler. Of the two the mascalonge is 

 undoubtedly the better game fish but, unfortunately, 

 far less widely distributed than the lake trout. The 

 mascalonge also, as a surface fish, that is, for the most 

 part inhabiting the fairly shallow water along-shore 

 in the vicinity of the weed beds, may be fished for with 

 more sportsmanlike tackle and methods than are practi- 

 cable in the case of the namaycush, the latter being es- 

 sentially a deep-water fish. Fishing for "lakers," how- 

 ever, when done rightly, is far from being poor sport; 

 but the angler to get any appreciable results must know 

 his fish and the way to fish for them. Lake trout fish- 

 ing is quite unlike any other form of angling. Many 

 lakes and ponds containing lake trout in abundance 

 have been fished for years by anglers for bass, pike, or 

 pickerel without so much as a strike from a laker. 



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