130 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN LAKE ANGLING. 



LAKE ANGLING. 



A NUMBER of the fish aheady described are found 

 in lakes ; all fish indeed which haunt rivers are found 

 in the lakes from which rivers run, with the exception 

 of migratory fish, when a high fall in a river stops 

 them from getting higher; hence there are no eels in 

 the lake of Geneva ; but though they are stopped by the 

 underground fall of the Rhone, they do get up the 

 falls of the Rhine into the lake of Constance. The 

 lake fish which I shall here notice, are the lake trout, 

 the char, the gwiniad, and the rud. 



ANGLING FOR LAKE TROUT. 



Sir William Jardine has ascertained that the great 

 lake trout ', found in Loch Awe, Loch Laggan, Loch 

 Ard, Ullswater, Loch Neagh, and probably in the 

 Swiss Lakes, is a different species from the common 

 trout. The following account, from the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica, was drawn up from the MS. of Sir 

 WiUiam Jardine. 



" It is said to be by far the most powerful of our 

 fresh-water fishes, exceeding the salmon in actual 

 strength, though not in activity. The most general 

 size caught by trolHng ranges is from three to fifteen 

 pounds; beyond that weight they are of uncommon 

 occurrence. If hooked upon tackle of moderate strength, 

 they afford excellent sport ; but the general method of 



(1) In Lathi, Salinofero.v (Jardine). 



