244 THE MACKINAW TROUT, OR MACKINAW SALMON. 



hook, called the lake hook. This method is called fishing at 

 anchor. 



New Yorkers who would visit the sporting lakes of Hamil- 

 ton County, will reach them most speedily and economically 

 by leaving the city by the Monday night's boat for Albany, and 

 taking the cars for the west at 7 o'clock next morning. At 

 about 10 you reach Amsterdam, where you take the stage for 

 Northville. Here stay till morning, when the regular mail 

 conveyance, which leaves but once a week, carries you to Lake 

 Pleasant, the first of the series. 



Salmon trout are there taken as the ice breaks up, and even 

 in winter through the ice. But if you value comfort, and have 

 no fancy for the keen air of those elevated regions (where the 

 season is two months later than on Long Island), the lour 

 weeks from and after the middle of May are infinitely prefer- 

 able, even if you regard the quantity -and quality of the fish. 

 The speckled brook trout do not bite until the end of May. 



