ioo THE FINE ART OF FISHING 



good flies for lake trout are: royal coachman, Parma- 

 chene belle, Montreal, and silver doctor. 



The lake trout is essentially a deep-water game fish, 

 habitually seeking the very deepest portions of its habi- 

 tat. It should be trolled for, therefore, 



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area feet or over in depth, preferably 



where the bottom is rocky, and off rocky reefs extend- 

 ing down into deep water. This being the case, it is 

 not difficult to understand why anglers for bass and 

 other fish never strike a namaycush, and also why tackle 

 of a very specialized sort must be used in lake trout 

 fishing. In mid-summer another good place to "work" 

 is in the vicinity of the spring-holes. Almost every lake 

 has its resident fisherman or fishermen gentlemen of 

 infinite leisure and obscure habits who "live off the 

 lake" by fishing and guiding who, for a suitable 

 stipend, will reveal to you the geography of the lake 

 bottom as regards its bars, reefs, spring-holes, etc., mat- 

 ters of the utmost importance to the angler for lake 

 trout. 



As for the practical side of deep-trolling, the matter 



of tackle, there are two methods in general use. You 



can use either a hand-line with a heavy 



*T W r sinker or you can employ a metal line, 

 which sinks sufficiently deep by its own 

 weight, on a fairly heavy trolling rod. The former 

 method is distinctly the less sportsmanlike and desir- 

 able. The latter method, only recently introduced, 

 makes a much better sport of lake trout fishing than it 



