Experience has demonstrated a better way which is now universally followed.

At Tallac the hotel has a large place devoted to this process, which is practically as follows: Each boatman has a fish-box, numbered to correspond with his boat.

These are kept in the water during the season, and if the catch of his "fare" for one day is not sufficient for a shipment it is placed in the box.

When a sufficient number is on hand, they are taken out by the boatman, carefully cleaned and hung up to dry in fly-proof, open-air cages.
When perfectly dry inside and out they are packed in sweet-smelling Tallac Meadow hay, and shipped by express.
Many visitors cannot understand why there are no fish in some of the lakes that, to their eyes, seem just as well adapted for fish as others that possess an abundance.

Even old timers do not all know the reason.