THE TROUT, 45 



iened ; by tlie largeness of their backs you may 

 know when ihey are in season^ which may serve 

 as a rule tor all other fishes. All winter long 

 they are sick, lean, and unwholesome, and fre- 

 quenth" lousy. As the spring advances, desert- 

 ing the still deep waters, tliey repair to the gra- 

 velly ground, against which they continue to 

 rub, till they have got rid of their lice, which are 

 a kind of worm, with large heads; from that 

 time they delight to be in sharp streams, and 

 such as are very swift; where they wait ibr 

 minnows, May-fiies, &c. The latter part of May 

 they are in the highest perfection. 



The colours of the trout, and its spots, vary 

 greatly in the different waters, and in different 

 seasons ; yet each may be "reduced to one spe- 

 cies. In Llyndivi, a lake in South Wales, are 

 trouts called coch-y-fiail, marked with red and 

 black spots, as big as sixpences; others unspot- 

 ted, and of a reddish hue, that sometimes weigli 

 near ten pounds, but are bad tasted. 



In Lough-Neagh, in Ireland, are trouts called 

 there buddas^hs. which sometimes weiah thirty 

 pounds. 



Trouts (probably of the same species) are also 

 taken in Ullcjs-vvater, a lake in Cumberland, of a 

 much superior size to these of Lough-JNeagh ; 

 these are supposed to be the same with the trout 

 of the lake ol" Geneva. He is usually caught witli 

 a zcorniy minnow, or^y, either natural, orartiticial; 

 ilie different baits for him are the carth-zcorrt, 

 dun^-zcorm. and ihemcurnotyOV z^ntle, but the best 

 are tlie lob-worm, and brandling. Hii^haunls are, iii 

 in purling brooks, running very swift over chalk 

 stones, gravel, &cc. he is oftener taken in the side 

 of the stream, tlian in it, though the large ones 

 are often caught in the deepest part of it. lit 



