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head in those lakes, and apparently the fish make 

 their way into them in the fall and winter, re- 

 maining the next spring until the warming water 

 drives them out, or perhaps scarcity of proper 

 food forces them into the little creeks. One lake 

 much fished by me offers good trout fishing early 

 in the season; later on, one can take small-mouth 

 bass to his heart's content, seldom if ever seeing 

 a trout. One peculiarity is that the trout always 

 run large and the bass of medium size, two 

 pounds being a large fish indeed. Three-pound 

 trout are not uncommon. Do the bass feed upon 

 the small trout, or is it only the big trout which 

 find their way into the lake? I wish some one 

 would answer. 



It comes as a surprise to a great many people 

 when they are informed that true speckled trout 

 can be taken from the waters of Lake Superior. 

 These are not lake trout, mind you, (Christi- 

 vomer namycush) Mackinaw trout, but typical 

 brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis. Says Kirk- 

 land B. Alexander in "The Log of the North 

 Shore Club": "It is not always that one can 

 fish the reefs of Lake Superior. I have waited 

 and fretted and brooded in camp for a week for 

 those white-caps to cease their snarling over yel- 

 low-fanged rocks where the biggest trout lie. 



