4o6 SALMON AND TROUT. 



offered the following observations in the passage already re- 

 ferred to. 



The secret of success in spinning for the Great Lake trout 

 lies principally in four points — time, depth, speed, and place, 

 thus : 



Time. — As a rule, begin fishing when other people are 

 leaving off ; that is, in summer at about six o'clock p.m. From 

 this hour until midnight lake trout may be caught. 



Depth. — Instead of weighting the tackle to spin the bait at 

 some three feet from the surface, lead it so as to sink to within 

 about the same distance from the bottom., be the depth what it 

 may. Both for this purpose, and in order to keep the bait at 

 a distance from the boat, it is almost indispensable that from 

 forty to fifty, or, in very deep water, as much as sixty and 

 even sometimes seventy yards of line, should be let out from 

 the reel. 



Speed. — Let the boat be rowed slowly, rather than at a 

 brisk, lively pace. A large lake trout will seldom trouble 

 himself to follow a bait that is moving fast away from 

 him ; consequently the bait must possess the speciality of 

 spinning, at all events moderately well, or it will not spin 

 at all. 



With regard to the ordinary brown lake trout (Jario) 

 though they may not unfrequently be taken at night when 

 trolling for ferox, they are rather day than night feeders, and 

 usually take best before noon. 



As regards the tackle for lake trout spinning, that described 

 and recommended for lake salmon trolling, p. 381, is by far 

 the best I know of, and the flight and bait there figured will 

 be found a good general medium, both for heavy brown trout 

 a.r\^ ferox. Unless where no small brown trout were obtain- 

 able, I should never think myself of spinning with a bait 

 longer than 4 inches from nose to tip of tail-fin. If the actual 

 minnow or a stone loach (Irish ' colley ') be used, either the 

 ' Dee ' flight, represented at p. 385, or my own flight of the 

 reduced size shown in the cut, or a size larger, can be advan- 



