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These fish are very game when hooked, and 

 very beautiful fish, generally in fine condition ; 

 they are good eating if cooked on the spot, huf 

 they will not keep or travel at least they are 

 flabby and .flavourless in such case, which I 

 attribute to the weedy bottom, on which they no 

 doubt feed much. The best way is to have them 

 potted on the spot, and they are then most excel- 

 lent. They rise only to the fly, disregarding 

 entirely the spinning of the minnow, though ! 

 suppose they would take a worm after heavy 

 rains. This is, however, contrary to the rules 

 of the lake, which very properly only allow of 

 fly-fishing; and the minnow I have only tried 

 in order to verify the information I had, that a 

 trout was never known to rise to the minnow in 

 Tal-y-llyn.' I trolled one favourable windy day 

 the whole length of the lake, and there might 

 not have been a fish in it, to judge from the 

 utter disregard that was paid to the bait. 



T do not profess, in these scattered memoranda, 

 to lecture on the art of fly-fishing and shall 

 therefore not enter into the question as regards 

 this particular lake. I might, however, be 

 excused for doing so, as I know no place where 

 systems and dogmas as to certain particular flies 

 and the art of using them, are more canvassed 

 and disputed than at Tal-y-llyn. The visitors at 



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