SPINNING AND BAIT FISHING. 373 



, It not unfrequently occurs, however, in trolling for lake 

 trout, that extreme fineness of tackle is of such paramount 

 importance that all fixed lead on the line or trace has to be 

 dispensed with, and concealed instead in the belly of the bait 

 itself, as in the tackle above figured. In this case the spinner 

 must take his chance of ' kinking ; ' but as the bait never need 

 be ' cast ' in trailing, the line being merely paid out from the 

 reel by degrees, without any loose coils lying about, kinking is 

 not of such very vital consequence not, at any rate, of such 

 disabling consequence as w r here the bait is constantly being 

 cast and drawn in by hand. When no fixed leads above the 

 bait are used there should be at least two double swivels, the 

 first two or three feet above the hooks, and the second about 

 the same distance above that again. When an extra 'sinker' is 

 required, an excellent ' removable ' weight is formed by coiling 

 lead wire on the reel line, three or four yards above the bait. 

 This can, of course, be taken off, as well as diminished or 

 added to, at pleasure. 



With regard to the ordinary brown lake trout (fario), 

 though they may not unfrequently be taken at night when 

 trolling for ferox, they are rather day than night feeders, and 

 usually take best before noon. 



The tackle and bait for Great Lake trout spinning are 

 similar in all respects to those above recommended in spinning 

 for ordinary lake trout, except that it may be advisable, where 

 the former run large, to add a few inches of girnp next the 

 bait, as the Jerox is appropriately so called, and bites like a 

 bull-dog. 



The loach, as I have observed, is one of the very best 

 spinning baits for all sorts of lake trolling. The way to catch 

 him is to walk up the middle of a shallow pool or stream 

 where he abides, carrying in your right hand a three-pronged 

 dinner-fork. Armed with this you turn over with your left 

 hand any flat tempting- looking stones under which the loach, 

 or 'beardie,' as he is sometimes called, usually has his habitat ; 

 his nose or tail will very likely be seen projecting. It then 



