Show UNUSUAL UN SUAL BAITS FOR TROUt lures That fut Attract When Fat Pat Pork in Some Cases a Certain lure New York Sun Sometimes trout jump at any kind of bait Sometimes It seems as If thoy their would refuse every lure yet as a rule rula something will be found to attract them if it the angler keeps on trying long Ions enough One of the choicest little littie lakes now re remaining remaining remaining for tor speckled trout Is Lac Lao Ste Genevieve at the foot of ot the bIg Sugar SugarLoaf SugarLoaf Loaf Loat In Pontiac county No one ever heard of a fish of less lens than three pounds coming corning from it and those of ten pounds are by no means rare But ut a man maxi might m fish for hours in that lake ake without a single nibble unless he lie knew the right bait to use That bait is a white grub or a young sucker The prettiest and by far the most effective bait for the majority of these lakes it Is not nt lawful to make use of though the use it when ever over they can prepare it properly It Is a fingerlIng brook trout kept for five or six hours in milky water until its sides are arc silver white and its spots beautifully soft and clear Very often the ventral fins of trout with enough of the silvery or scarlet skin adhering to attach it comfortably to the hook is a useful bait and the eye of a captured fish on a tiny hook gut mounted will nearly always attract the favorable attention of trout In Clear lake a well known fishing re ra resort resor sort sor skipping with a triangular piece of fat pork is the only really certain lure The line Une must be well and the meat about three inches in long tapering to toa toa toa a narrow point A stiff rod is required and the bait balt I having been thrown to one side and out is dragged past the fisherman A swivel above the tho hook is perhaps p an advantage for the line Une should not move too speedily though the bait balt should no not be bEl still Sharp eyes will sometimes perceive a whole drove of fine Line fish lying near by gravely Inspecting I the luscious looking attraction In that case the angler should persevere persever for by and by the trout will be pretty sure to lose patience and to make a trial of what Is being of to them At times in this particular lake the fisherman will be surprised to find that his lii hi pork has been savagely seized by an or chub of large size the very last fish to be suspected of such voracious daring All the droves of ot large trout contain numbers of these fish the strangely assorted companions probably consorting together to ether for the same SaIne reann that men and oxen travel together in war times Later on small chub make a very fair bait balt but the trouble Is that very few men have patience for bottom or still fishing In trout lakes in hi summer time owing to the th capricious character of the fish It is only in tn the spring or just whoa when the frost first comes in the fall that the spotted lake trout may be taken freely in that way There Is a fine lake not many hours travel from this place where only one man is able to take fish though there are ar 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 who speaks broken fish French and may be bean an Indian comes conies along with a ful rod and running tackle and from a birch bark canoe catches great numbers of dark brown trout with their under part of a deep orange color their size ranging from five to eight pounds He always courteously offers of his catch eatch 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 of ot the black water In preserved lakes ground baiting be forehand Is sometimes practiced Bul locks liver is carefully cooked until it will crumble readily when cold This is lightly salted and scattered in the water by handfuls in the selected spots For trout this requires to be done for some days daS and the supply must bo be 3 unstinted The fishing is done with small smaIl worms or bits of meat moat A bit of ot salt pork or better LUll dill of raw smoked ham is gen generally generally generally used and an the results are axe often satisfactory Bits of chopped up suckers mixed with lettuce leaves are also recommended mended and some guides declare that boiled wheat Is also good ground halt bait But fishing over a bed of fish thus at Is not very tempting sport to most anglers anglen It smacks rather strongly of the preserves furnished with coop raised rained pheasants and farmyard par of or European countries and is at best amusement for the men who are past the real enjoyment af sf angling In America Ingenuity and obviate the ne necessity necessIty necessity of such preliminary precautions at this season anyway For Instance a couple of or young fellows who were w re doing ng beside a lake Jake full tulI of ot fine trout caught their first fish with a toad their bait bai t having proved ineffective They The tried canned beef next arid and that failing kippered herrings put up ups In to toneto irato neto sauce Salt pork caught one or two but they the had supreme success at last with witha a Jar of ot prime preserved shrimps With these they landed all aU the fish they cared to take The same fish had hi refused worms minnows trolls mice and pieces of ot their first trout Another man found it well worth his while to kill the buzzing June bugs and then strip them of their wings before putting them on a pretty large hook He lie believes this to be the most killing kUling of ot all baits for tor this time of year |