406 SALMON AND TROUT. 
offered the following observations in the passage already re- 
ferred to. 
The secret of success in spinning for the Great Lake trout 
lies principally in four points—time, depth, speed, and place, 
thus : 
Time.—As a rule, deg fishing when other people are 
leaving off ; that is, in summer at about six o’clock P.M. From 
this hour until midnight lake trout may be caught. 
Depth.—Instead of weighting the tackle to spin the bait at 
some three feet from the surface, lead it so as to sink to within 
about the same distance from the do¢tom, be the depth what it 
may. Both for this purpose, and in order to keep the bait at 
a distance from the boat, it is almost indispensable that from 
forty to fifty, or, in very deep water, as much as sixty and 
even sometimes seventy yards of line, should be let out from 
the reel. 
Speed.—Let the boat be rowed séowdy, rather than at a 
brisk, lively pace. A large lake trout will seldom trouble 
himself to follow a bait that is moving fast away from 
him; consequently the bait must possess the speciality of 
spinning, at all events moderately well, or it will not spin 
at all. 
With regard to the ordinary brown lake trout (/azio), 
though they may not unfrequently be taken at night when 
trolling for evox, they are rather day than night feeders, and 
usually take best before noon. 
As regards the tackle for lake trout spinning, that described 
and recommended for lake salmon trolling, p. 381, is by far 
the best I know of, and the flight and bait there figured will 
be found a good general medium, both for heavy brown trout 
and ferox. Unless where no small brown trout were obtain- 
able, I should never think myself of spinning with a bait 
longer than 4 inches from nose to tip of tail-fin. If the actual 
minnow ora stone loach (Irish ‘colley’) be used, either the 
‘Dee’ flight, represented at p. 385, or my own flight of the 
reduced size shown in the cut, or a size larger, can be advan- 
