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They are mostly taken with gill nets and set lines in deep water. 

 The lines used are as large as the largest sized cod lines, and the 

 Looks, which are generally made by the blacksmiths in the 

 vicinity of the lakes, are equal in size to the biggest cod hooks. 

 The bait is, pieces of the lake herring, or of the white fish. 

 When the lines are taken up, if the fish are large, they are lifted 

 into the boat with a large strong gaff. The most pleasant and 

 exciting mode of capture for the angler is that of trolling 

 with stout line and hooks, as before described,* and a piece of 

 pork attached, or the spoon bait, or brass revolving hook. The 

 best places for this kind of sport are in Lakes Huron, Superior, 

 and the Straits of Mackinaw. He affords amusement and 

 exciting exercise to the inhabitants near the lakes, and bites 

 equally as sharp at the baited hook as Jack Frost does at the 

 exposed features of the fisherman. 

 A friend at Detroit says : 



" During the winter, trout are taken in great numbers through 

 the ice, in Green Bay ; and the markets of Chicago, Galena, 

 and many of the interior towns of Wisconsin are thus supplied. 

 The bait (herring) are caught with small gill nets sunk through 

 the ice. A hole is then cut over twenty-five or thirty fathom 

 water, and the line, which is kept in motion, prevents the hole 

 from freezing. When a fisherman has a bite, and strikes the 

 fish, he throws the line over his shoulder and runs off, drawing 

 the fish rapidly up to the hole and out upon the ice, where it is 

 left to freeze. In this manner trout are taken in large quanti- 

 ties, and transported in a frozen state to the towns above named. 

 Hundreds of barrels of them are salted and sold in the spring." 

 At Peseco Lake, Lake Louis, and Lake Pleasant, in 

 Hamilton County, N. Y., and other northern lakes, much sport 

 is had by boat trolling with the rod and reel, and parties are 



* See Lake Trout, page 64. 



