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passing steamers. According to Herbert, " a coarse, heavy, stiff rod, 

 and a powerful oiled hempen flaxen line, on a winch, with a heavy sinker; 

 a cod-hook, baited with any kind of flesh, fish, or fowl, — is the most 

 successful, if not the most orthodox or scientific, mode of capturing him. 

 His great size and immense strength alone give him value as a fish of 

 game; but when hooked he pulls strongly and fights hard, though he is 

 a boring, deep fighter, and seldom if ever leaps out of the water, like 

 the true salmon or brook-trout." 



In the depths of Lake Superior is a variety of the Great Lake trout 

 known as the Siscowet (Cristivomer namaycush siskawitz), remarksihle 

 for its extraordinary fatness of flesh. The cause of this difference lies 

 probably in some peculiarity of food as yet unascertained. 



-FC 



