BAIT-FISHING. 443 
I have killed them from one to sixteen and a half 
pounds. The sixteen and a half pound lake trout was 
hooked by me, on a single gut leader; from the time I 
struck him, till his capture, was one hour and forty-five 
minutes. During the first half hour, he showed great bad 
temper, and kept the perspiration flowing off my head; 
he did sulk for half an hour, but it was a moving and a 
dragging sulk, unlike the salmon; and during this sulk 
he took me along the lake for about a mile; 1 became 
fatigued, and bore so heavy on him that I got him near 
the surface, and from that time until his death was one 
continued run and fight. He had not the vivacity of the 
nine and a quarter pound fish, but still I had “my hands 
full,” and was effectually “used up” when he was gaffed 
by Cowles, my guide. 
