THE LAKE TROUTS. 465 
of young white-fish, stating that for a great part of the year they live in 
much deeper water than is resorted to by the young white-fish, though 
Trout straying into shoal water, or migrating upon shallow spawning 
grounds, would undoubtedly prey upon the smaller white-fish as readily 
as they would upon any other. 
It is not uncommon for a Trout to swallow a fish nearly as large as 
itself. One measuring twenty-three inches was brought ashore at Two 
Rivers, Wis., from the mouth of which some three inches of the tail of a 
fish (Lota maculosa) projected. The ‘‘lawyer,’’ when taken from the 
Trout, measured about seventeen inches. ‘‘ Their exceeding voracity,’’ 
writes Mr. Milner, ‘‘ induces them to fill their maws with singular articles 
ot food. Where the steamers or vessels pass, the refuse of the table is 
eagerly seized upon, and I have taken from the stomach a raw peeled 
potato and a piece of sliced liver, and it is not unusual to find pieces of 
corn-cobs, in the green-corn season.”’ 
Neither the Mackinaw Trout nor the Siscowet is a game fish in high 
esteem, though the latter is taken by trolling with a bright-colored fly, 
with a minnow bait, or a spoon-hook. It does not rise like the Brook 
Trout, and its play is likely to be sluggish and sulky. It is also taken 
with a bottom line on grounds which have been previously baited. The 
Indians of the Sault Ste. Marie display great skill in spearing the Macki- 
naw Trout through the ice, luring them within reach by means of decoy 
fishes of wood and lead. By far the largest quantities are taken in pounds 
and gill-nets in the Great Lakes. 
In Lake Superior Trout are caught principally in September, October, 
and November in pounds and gill-nets. Formerly they were fished for 
with hooks only, but of late years this practice has been abandoned by 
professional fishermen. In the Green Bay region large Trout are caught 
principally with hooks, though in the western part of the bay and in 
Oconto Bay many are taken in gill and pound nets in deep water. Those 
captured in the gill-nets are thought by the fishermen to be meshed, for 
the most part, while these nets are being lifted; the Trout dart after the 
other fish which have been gilled and thus become entangled. In Lake 
Huron they are caught entirely with gill-nets. They may be taken with 
hooks baited in the ordinary way, but can hardly be said to afford sport 
to the angler, since they allow themselves to be pulled to the surface as 
easily and unresistingly as codfish. 
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