302 . SALMONIA. 



Phys. — The char* is a most beautiful and 

 excellent fish, and is, of course, a fish of prey. 

 Is he not an object of sport to the angler ? 



Hal. — They generally haunt deep cool 

 lakes, and are seldom found at the surface till 

 late in the autumn. When they are at the 

 surface, however, they will take either fly or 

 minnow. I have known some caught in both 

 these ways ; and have myself taken a char, 

 even in summer, in one of those beautiful, 

 small, deep lakes in the Upper Tyrol, near 

 Nazereit; but it was where a cool stream 

 entered from the mountain ; and the fish did 

 not rise, but swallowed the artificial fly under 

 water. The char is always in its colour a very 

 brilliant fish, but in different countries there 

 are many varieties in the tint. I do not re- 

 member ever to have seen more beautiful fish 

 than those of Aussee, which, when in perfect 

 season, have the lower fins and the belly of 

 the brightest vermilion, with a white line on 

 the outside of the pectoral, ventral, anal, and 

 lower part of the caudal fin, and with vermilion 



* Salmling of the Germans. 



