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first opened last year, is exceedingly moderate in 

 its charges, is well fitted throughout, and is by far 

 the best house of them all. There are several guides 

 at the Lake, the best average of them being Mor- 

 ris Decker, who has an island in the lake on which 

 he lets out tents to camping parties, supplying 

 them with all necessaries at reasonable terms. He 

 is well posted in the various feeding grounds, and 

 with him good sport is a certainty, if the weather 

 is right. There are some very large bass here. Mr. 

 Eugene C. Blackford has caught several at four 

 and a half pounds, and five and a quarter pounds. 

 One was caught three years ago weighing eight 

 pounds two ounces. There are plenty of good 

 pickerel, and anglers are but little annoyed by sun- 

 fish or eels. There is a fine fishing club-house on 

 Bertrand Island, which is very exclusive. The best 

 bait here has proved to be live bait, minnows, or 

 frogs. Now as regards bait for still -fishing, I have 

 tried almost everything at odd times. 



Bass are very peculiar fish as regards feeding. 

 Sometimes they take one bait right along all day, and 

 at other times will change morning, noon, and night, 

 also from sunshine to cloud. I generally start in the 

 early morning with grasshoppers, and if that does 

 not suit them, I vary it to the helgramite known 

 to naturalists as the larvae of the horned corydalis, 

 locally called < ' dobsons, " " dobsell, " " hellion, ' ' 

 ' " crawler," "kill-devil," etc. a live minnow, small 

 green frog, small bull-head, or a "lam per" local 

 name for small lamprey eel. 



