264 Fisuine ry Aarerican Waters. 
except the caudal, which is forked. The head resembles the 
brook trout’s, even to the teeth. By some persons this fish 
is supposed to be a land-locked salmon; but it is a distinct 
family of the genus Sudmo, though in principal outward marks 
of characterization it resembles the salmon-trout of Ontario 
and the other great lakes, differing because of inhabiting lim- 
pid spring waters with better food. 
Trout oF SENECA AND CayuGa Lakes.—Salmo conpinis. 
In May, after the waters become settled and clear, these 
fish are taken by trolling with spinning-tackle and minnow 
bait. It is necessary to sink the bait near the bottom, and, 
as the trout remain near shore until June, a ight sinker will 
be sufticient; but when the weather becomes quite warm 
they resort to a feeding-level from fifty to two hundred feet 
below the surface, where they are taken by trolling with 
feathered squids. The line should be two hundred yards 
long, of the size used for catching cod, and from twelve feet 
above the hook to twenty-five feet leads an eighth of an inch 
thick are rolled at intervals on the line, sometimes to the 
weight of a pound. Row slowly, and let out line until you 
get a bite, and then calculate the depth to the feeding-level, 
as the water in some places is a thousand feet deep. 
Baiting the buoy and fishing with a drop-line is also prac- 
ticed with success, though none of these methods of taking 
lake trout are very attractive to the angler. 
THE MACKINAW TROUT. 
This trout is the largest of the genus in American waters, 
generally running from two to five feet in length, and weigh- 
ing trom fifteen to fifty pounds, though Dr. Mitchill states 
