LAKES OF MONTGOMERYSHIRE. 157 



LLYN HIR, or the " long pool," about 300 yards 

 in length, and 150 in breadth. It contains ex- 

 cellent red trout, but in very hot summers is nearly 

 dried up. 



LLYN CADWIW, a lake of remarkably clear water, 

 formerly containing great numbers of fine trout, 

 which have been nearly extirpated by the introduction 

 of pike. There is here, however, good trolling, and 

 excellent sport may be obtained by suspending baits 

 by a short line to inflated bladders, and turning 

 them loose on the windward side of the pool.* 



* "The principal sport to take a pike is, to procure a 

 goose, or gander, or duck ; take one of the pike lines, as I 

 have showed you before, tie the line under the left wing, and 

 over the right wing, as a man weareth his belt ; turn the goose 

 loose in a pond where pikes are, there is no doubt of pleasure 

 betwixt the goose and the pike. It is the greatest pleasure 

 that a noble gentleman in Shropshire giveth his friends for 

 entertainment. There is no question, among all this fishing, 

 but we shall take a brace of good pikes. 



" A rod twelve feet long, and a ring of wire, 

 A winder and barrel, will help thy desire 

 In killing a pike, but the forked stick 

 With a slit and a bladder, and that other fine trick, 

 Which our artists call Snap, with a goose or a duck, 

 Will kill two to one, if thou have any luck. 

 The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, 

 To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile. 

 When a pike suns himself and a frogging doth go, 

 The two-inched hook is better, I know, 

 Than the ord'nary snaring : but still I must cry, 

 When the pike is at home, minde the cookery. 



" Now I will pawn my credit, that I will show a way either 



