The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12
BIG TROUT LIE DEEP. :
A Singular Fact Made Plain by Bot.
tom Trolling in Adiron-
dack Waters.

''What a troll, heavily loaded so it
could be drawn near the bottom, would
produce from some of the Adirondack
| lakes which contain nothing but native
brook trout would undoubtedly sur
prise and delight the angler" said a
New York sportsman, according to the
Sun. 'The great, big fellows, such as
no fisherman will ever catch with fly
or other surface lure, if he should fish
from now until doomsday, lie far down
in the depths of those waters and no.
where else, except in the winter, when
! they come nearer to the surface.
1.-The largest true brook trout Of
which there is authentic record of the
killing in New York was taken from
White lake, in Sullivan county, before
that natural trout water was stocked
with black bass and pickerel. That
trout weighed nine pounds and was
taken by Lewis Platt, on a loaded troll
in so feet of water.
Fishing in the same way, Otto Gill
pin killed trout in White lake that
weighed seven pounds, and the late
Charles Fenno Hoffman captured six
FOUNDER.
Trout weighing a pound and more
are freely taken with the fly on Frank
lake, in the Adirondacks, and speci-
mems weighing three pounds have sue
cumbed to the fly. No one ever sus-
pected what monsters of their kind
lurked in the depths of the lake, how
ever, until two seasons or SO ago, when
a guest of the North Woods club went
fishing on small Adirondack lake
which had long been said to contain
brook trout, although no one ever
caught any of them by any of the rec
ognized methods of trout fishing.
"Then an old guide confided one day
to visiting angler that he had caught
many big one in that lake through
the ice. This angler, acting on that
hint, weighted a line with quarter Of
pound of lead, used a small, bright
bass troll, and trailed it near the bot
tom of the lake The result was that
he landed four brilliant brook trout in
less than an hour, the smallest one of
which weighed four pounds.
ga member of the North Woods club
thereupon made the experiment in
Frank pond, and captured the biggest
brook trout on record since the TAX
ing of the nine-pounder in White lake,
years ago. This Frank pond trout
weighed eight and half pounds.
81 don't know whether or not this
method of trout fishing has found
favor among the scientific anglers of
which the North Woods club consists,
but by no other means can the pis-
catorial patriarchs of the wilderness
waters be brought from their depths.
Speaking of big trout, the true
speckled trout of the wilds, it isn't like
ly that there is another spot on the
continent where they average so large
to the regular catch as they do in Lake
Wayagamack, in the Canadian wilder
ness, 100 miles north of Three rivers.
A three-pounder there is not regarded
as more than an ordinary catch, and
siX-pounders are common.
"The lake is 60 miles in circumfer-
ence, dotted with islands, and indented
with many bays. Fly fishing is the
rule early in the season, but later on
the lure is young white fish. I saw one
catch of four trout from that lake, the
four having been killed in quick sue
cession, and the weight of each fish
was above five pounds"