September, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
501 
to have such a burden on your hands. 
Take a wiggling minnow from the pail 
with the left hand, grasp him firmly and 
•with decision by the middle, then with 
a sudden blow strike off his head a la 
guillotine. After that keep on chopping 
until the body is a series of chunks from 
half to one full inch long. This will 
make the buoy bait. Repeat the opera- 
tion twenty-five or fifty times and you 
will have a nice pile of bait. A heavy 
butcher knife is just the thing or a small 
hatchet or chopper, to get the suckers 
chopped into bits and ready. 
Then the freshly cut bait-fish bits are 
taken to the buoys and sprinkled on the 
floor of the lake at E. Not too many or 
too few but just enough to attract Mr. 
L. T. to come over and enjoy dinner with 
you. Needless to say you deceive him 
a bit by letting down a piece of sucker 
camouflaged around a neat barbed hook 
— and then if you are lucky he comes to 
Dinner with you. The Dinner needs a 
capital D because it will be that kind 
of a meal when you land his majesty on 
the dining table. A buoy should be bait- 
ed about every other day with fresh bits 
of sucker meat. The stick, N, forming 
the floating buoy will be mighty handy to 
anchor the boat to — unless the wind 
comes up and blows your craft, hook, line, 
sinker and all upon the shore. A buoy 
ought to be baited three or four days 
before beginning to fish, but if you can’t 
wait, why go at it the minute the bait 
is down. Do not allow the baited hook 
to rest on the bottom, but keep it two 
or three feet high and handy for the fish. 
I LIKE a short casting pole, like the 
one in the picture at No. 3, for fish- 
ing in deep water ar.d a canoe-boat, 
' or a canoe, suits me best with the short 
rod. Of course advice on rods is like 
caution on the subject of matrimony to 
a youngster, but that won’t hinder me 
from telling what I like best. And for 
a reel I like the big windlass affair that 
allows you to carry all the line you can 
buy at the store if you want to do that. 
You ought to have three hundred feet 
if the lakes are like the ones I know 
about. Not that you will ever use that 
much but have enough so that you may 
cut off pieces now and then or break a 
line here and there and still have some- 
thing to use toward the end of the trip. 
Probably it would be idle for me to 
advise anything about the make of the 
goods to use as the fun of fishing is in 
the fact that every man can carry just 
the tackle that he pleases. If we all 
wanted the same thing it wouldn’t do. 
M AYBE the feat of fishing at the 
buoy is a little tame and unevent- 
ful and so you decide to go troll- 
ing. Now the lake trout hides pretty 
deep in the lake he loves and you have 
got to get down to him unless it is 
early in the spring when he is hungry 
and will come right up to the surface 
and beg. A trolling rig that will get 
down where he is, is shown in the 
diagram at No. 6. From the boat, V, 
the line extends far down and behind 
to the heavy sinker, A. This big hen’s- 
egg of a sinker will follow along on the 
bottom of the lake and keep your lures 
down low for him. You can get it or 
make it and its weight should be two 
or three pounds. This for very deep 
water, possibly ten ounces to a pound 
and a half for more shallow places. 
Between the boat and the sinker come 
three short lines, X, Y, and Z. These 
are attached by three-way swivels. The 
lower line is five or six feet long and 
three feet off the bottom. The next one 
eight or ten feet long and four feet, 
more or less, above the lower line is at 
Y, while a third line twelve feet long 
is swiveled four feet higher. Thus you 
have three chances of hitting the right 
level at which the particular trout is 
resting. He is pretty lazy so give him 
his medicine as close to his mouth as 
possible. Each of the three short lines 
have a swivel, like at M, between the 
main line and the bait, B. Also a swivel, 
D, is best between the large sinker and 
the first short line. 
You must take some kind of a bait 
trap, like the one in the photograph at 
No. 5, to the battlefield with you. Bait 
it up with bread crusts and sink it near 
the mouth ot the inlet or in r deep pool 
along the mouth of the stream that 
empties into -tne lake. Some kind of a 
landing net will be necessary — at least 
for taking the minnows out of the bait 
box if for no other purpose. And then 
you might want to ease a big one into 
the boat and last resting place with your 
net too — you can’t tell. Or you may like 
to use a gaff hook. Any way to win! 
Like most other kinds of lake fishing 
you have got to be a philosopher when 
after lake trout. There is a good deal 
that comes along in between the few big 
events that you will need to fill in with 
philosophy. But its all in the game and 
the outdoor invigoration, the hardened 
muscles, the play, the nerve rest, the 
joy of the thing, the contrast to your 
desk back in the city — all those and more 
are elements that go into the* fishing 
game. Of course you want your fish, 
every live man does, but don’t take 
them all— leave a few for seed. 
