LAKE AND STREAM 201 



from, and sport depending on the proper 

 choice, who shall say that trolling in a 

 lake is not a matter involving knowledge ? 

 It would be very difficult to give a com- 

 plete account of the different minnows 

 and the times to use them ; but there is 

 one good rule. The artificial minnow 

 most likely to be successful on any day 

 is that which most closely resembles the 

 minnows swimming about at the edges of 

 the lake, specimens of which can easily 

 be taken in a close-meshed net, or in a 

 trap, or even on a small hook baited with 

 a worm. Better still is it to fish with the 

 minnows thus caught themselves : it is a 

 peculiar fact that, whilst trout seem some- 

 times to prefer artificial flies to the insects 

 which the artificer has imitated, they 

 always prefer a real minnow to one made 

 of canvas and paint, or of steel and paint, 

 or of peacock's feathers. So do the 

 salmon and the pike : only, in their cases, 

 not minnows only, but also small fish of 

 many kinds, including parr and trout, are 

 among the lures in trolling. 



