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I have killed them from one to sixteen and a half 

 pounds. The sixteen and a half pound lake trout was 

 hooked by me, on a single gut leader ; from the time I 

 struck him, till his capture, was one hour and forty-five 

 minutes. During the first half hour, he showed great bad 

 temper, and kept the perspiration flowing off my head; 

 he did sulk for half an hour, but it was a moving and a 

 dragging sulk, unlike the salmon ; and during this sulk 

 he took me along the lake for about a mile; 1 became 

 fatigued, and bore so heavy on him that I got him near 

 the surface, and from that time until his death was one 

 continued run and fight. He had not the vivacity of the 

 nine and a quarter pound fish, but still I had " my hands 

 full," and was effectually " used up " when he was gaffed 

 by Cowles, my guide. 



