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mouth, a row on the upper and lower maxillaries, and on the 

 tongue, but none on the vomer. The teeth are curved inwards 



This Trout is sometimes taken as high as twenty-five 

 pounds, though such instances are extremely rare, they 

 seldom exceed six, and the general average is not over four 

 pounds. They have one of the habits of large Salmon when 

 hooked, which is sulking at the bottom ; but as far as sport 

 goes, they bear about the same relation to the Salmon or the 

 Brook Trout, as a wagon horse does to a full-blooded racer, 

 or a vicious mustang. 



They are said to spawn in November, along the shores of 

 the lakes, or the rocky margins of islands. They are found 

 in May and June, or as soon as the ice has disappeared, near 

 the outlets, where they are on the lookout for minnows and 

 shiners, which do not venture into deep water. So in trolling, 

 greater numbers, but smaller Lake Trout, are taken near the 

 outlets ; and larger ones, and fewer, in the depths of the lakes. 



Deep places in the lakes are marked with buoys, and, after 

 being baited a few days, are fished with hand-lines. In win- 

 ter, a place thus baited is fished through holes cut in the ice ; 

 but this kind of- fishing affords poor sport, and, as a general 

 thing, but few fish. 



I have never heard of Lake Trout rising as Brook Trout 

 do, though they are sometimes taken when trolling, on a large 

 gaudy fly, attached by a gut length to the line or leader, eight 

 or ten feet above the minnow. 



The usual mode of angling for them is by trolling with a 

 "shiner," a small fish resembling a roach or dace. At the end 

 of this article is a wood-cut representing a gang of hooks 

 baited with a minnow. Stout Limerick hooks are generally 

 used; the pair at the tail, as well as those in the middle, 

 should not be smaller than No. 1 ; the lip hook, No. 3 or 4 ; the 

 length of the gang is regulated by the size of the bait. The 



