80 best's AllT OF ANGLING. 



The chief p]a(tt; in England where this fish is 

 taken is JVinander-Mere: but in fVa/es they are 

 to be had in five diiferent places, viz. L/aniber- 

 ris, Liia-Umbet\ Fcstiniog, and Beit as, in Caer- 

 fiarvo}ishire, and near Casageddor, in Merioneth- 

 shire, in this last county they are sniaHer than 

 in the former, and are taken in October; but in 

 Carnarvonshire, in one of the lakes, they are 

 caught in November; in another in December, 

 and in the third in January, and when the fishing 

 in one ends, it besiins in another. Dr. Leio'h 

 savs the Charr^ in Consin^ ton-Mere, which is 

 not far from IVinander-Mere, are much better, 

 but there are reasons to suppose he was preju- 

 diced in this article. According to Camden, the 

 latter Miere is the lar<j;est standina; water in this 

 kino'dom, beins: ten miles in lem>;th ; and some 

 say it is as smooth at the bottom, as it it was 

 paved with polished marble. They swim toge- 

 ther in shoals, and though they appear on the 

 surface of the w^ater in the summer-time, yet 

 thev will not sufi'er themselves to be taken, 

 either with the angle, or with nets; therefore the 

 only season for fishing is when they resort to the 

 shallow parts of the lakes to spawn : at these 

 times they set trammel nets baited, and leave them 

 for whole days and nights, into which the fish 

 enter of their own accord. 



*CARPlO LACUS BEN ACT — THE GUILTj OR 



GILT CHARR, 



The Latin writers called the Gilt Char, Car^ 

 pio lacus Benaci, because they imagined it was 



* TUe Inhabitants of Westmoreland distinguish the Charr* 

 into different kinds according to their colors j but they appear 

 to be rather rarietics. 



