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0, salmon, after the Waltonian method, described on page 88 ; 

 this latter method is more simple in construction, but not con- 

 sidered as sure as the train of hooks. Your leader should be 

 of the best double or twisted gut, from three to four feet in 

 length, and should you wish to use the fly (which is often done), 

 it should be from two to three yards in length. For fly fishing 

 use one or two large gaudy salmon flies, made on No. 3 or 

 4 salmon hooks, at a sufficient distance apart, to prevent their 

 interfering with each other or the shiner. With your minnow 

 and fly train you may take a speckled brook trout and a lake trout 

 at the same time, of such proportions as will require your utmost 

 skill in bringing them to your boat. A necessary article on such 

 an excursion is a good sized gaff for securing your lake trout ; 

 your brook trout may be handled more carefully. When you 

 feel a bite, lower the point of your rod so as to give your fish 

 a chance to take the bait further in his mouth, and to place 

 yourself and rod in such a position as to give your game play 

 in case he needs it. Should the fish you seek run in deep 

 water, place a light swivel sinker on your line before your 

 leader. In all cases of trolling, use one or two swivels to 

 allow free spinning of your minnow and prevent your tackle 

 from entangling. 



A curious way of taking lake trout, practised by the inhabit- 

 ants living near the lakes, is to sink in some part of the lake 

 a large piece of bark attached to a pole, some twenty-five or 

 thirty feet in length, to which heavy weights are fastened ; this 

 is called an anchor, and is regularly baited two or three times 

 a week, with small fish. A number of anchors may be set in 

 this manner in different parts of the lake. These are kept baited 

 for several weeks, until it is thought that the trout have fairly 

 got into the habit of resorting to them. A fisherman will theu 

 tie his skiff to the end of the pole, and commence fishing with 

 a common drop line, using a very large, straight, and pointed 



