130 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN LAKE ANGLING. 



LAKE ANGLING. 



A NUMBER of the fish already 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. ThefoUowing account,, from the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica, was drawn up from the MS. of Sir 

 William Jardine. 



<e 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 trolling 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 



(i) In Latin, Salmo feror (JARDINE). 



