The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-04
UNUSUAL BATS FOR TROUT
Lures That Attract When Others'Fail
Fat Pork in Some Cases a
Certain Lure.
New York SUM

sometimes trout Jump at any KIND or
bait. Sometimes it seems as If they
would refuse every lure; yet as a rule
something viii be found to attract
them if the angler keeps on trying long
enough.
One of the choicest little lakes now re-
naming for speckled trout is Lac ste
Genevieve at the foot of the big Sugar
Loaf, in Pontiac county No one ever
heard of a fish of less than three pounds
coming from it. and those of ten pounds
are by no means rare
But man might fish for hours in that
iake without a single nibble unless he
knew the right bait to USE That bait is
The pret Ig OF ana YOu9 9s sucker fSa Most
fanny fanny directive bait for the majority of
tneSe lakes 1t is not lawful to make use
oI, lnQugn the haIf-breeds use it when
ever they can prepare it properly. 1t is
lingering brook trout, kept for five or
SIX hours in milky water until its sides
soft and clear.
| Very often the ventraI fins of trout
Win enough Of the silVery or scarlet skin
adherlng to attach it comfortably to the
mock, is useful bait, and the eye Of
captured fish on a tiny hook gut mounted
Win nearly always attract the favorable
attention of trout.
In Clear lake, a we'll known fishing re-
sort, Skipping with a triangular piece of
rat pork IS the only really certain lure
Inc line must be we'll shotted and the
meat ABOUT three 1nsnes long. tapering to
a narrow point.
A stiff rod is required, and the bait,
having been thrown to one side and out,
A swivel above the hook is perhaps an
| advantage, for the line should not move
TOO speedily, though the bait should not
| be still.
! Sharp eyes will sometimes perceive a.
whole drove of fine fish lying near by
graVeIy inspecting the luscious looking
ATTRACTION. In that case the angler
trout will be pretty sure to lose patience
and to make trial Of what is being Of
fered to them
At times in this particular lake the
fisherman will be surprised to find that
ms pork has been SaVagely seized by an
echeyin, or club, Of large size. the very
last fish to be suspected of such voracious
daring. All the droves of large trout
contain numbers Of these fish, the
strangely assorted companions probably
cCEsorung together for the same reason
that men and oxen travel together IL
war times.
Later on small club make very fair
bait, but the trouble is that very few
fishing in trout lakes in summer time
| owing to the capricious character of the
t;sh- 1t is only IN the spring or just when
the frost first comes in the fall that the
SPOTTED lake trout may be taken freely
There is a fine lake not many hours
{
man is able to take fish, though there
are any number of trout, there apparent
ly. The water is dark and no one ever
sees the fish in the bottom, nor are they
ever known to rise above it
| Every year a quiet old countryman,
VINO speaks broken fish French, and may
be an indian, comes along with a beauti-
full rod and running tackle, and from a
birch bark canoe catches great numbers
OF dark brown trout. with their under
ranging from five f0 eight
| He always COurteously offers of his
catch to the cottagers. But he makes a
mystery OF what he fishes with, and
though bribery and various other
means have been attempted, no man
! has yet learned his secret nor discovered
how to entice the magnificent trout out
In preserved lakes, ground batting be-
/ IcTenann- is sometimes practiced. Bull
lock hVer is carefully cooked until it
will crumble readily when cold
| This is lightly sailed and scattered in
the water by handfuls in the selected
spots For trout this requires to be done
for some days, and the supply must be
unStinted.
The fishing is done with small worms
or bits OF meat. A bit Of salt pork, or,
better still, OF raw smoked ham is gem
orally used, and the results are often
sa satisfactory. Bits of chopped up suckers
mixed with lettuce leaves are also recon-
Imended, and some guides declare that
boiled wheat. is also good ground bait
But fishing over bed of fish thus at
tracted is not very tempting sport to
most anglers 1t smacks rather strongly
OF the preserves furnished with coop
raised pheaSants and farmyard par
tridges OF European countries. and is at
best amusement for the men who are
past the real enjoyment af angling in
America
Ingenuity and patierce obviate the ne
cessity Of such preliminary precautions,
at this season. anyway. For instance, a
couple of young fellows who were doing
nothing beside a lake full of fine trout
caught their first fish with a toad their
bait having proved ineffective.
| They tried canned beef next, and that
failing, kippered behring's put up in to-
mato sauce. Salt pork caught one or two,
but they had supreme success at last with
a jar OF prime preserved shrimps
With these they landed all the fish
they cared to take. The same fish had
refused worms, minnows, trolls, mice and
pieces Of their first trout.
Another man found it well worth ms
while to kill the buzzing June bugs, and
then strip them Of their wings before
putting them on a pretty large hook. He
believes this to be the most killing of all