210 PRINCIPAL FISHING STATIONS. 



he had heard of monocular trout here within the 

 memory of persons then living. We confess, our 

 own experience does not enable us to confirm his 

 statement. 



LLYN FFYNNON Y GWAS, " the Servant's Pool ;" 

 so named from a shepherd who was drowned there 

 while washing his sheep : the Avon flows into this 

 lake. 



TULL Du, "the Black Cleft." The river flowing out 

 of Llyn Cwn is seen rolling down this deep fissure, 

 and is broken in its descent by a hundred projecting 

 craigs. After hard rain, the accumulation of water 

 rushes in a vast cataract from the height of 150 

 yards. Angle in the pool at the bottom of the fall. 



It will be quite sufficient here to observe, once 

 for all, that any fisherman, possessing even the most 

 ordinary skill, will find sport even to satiety on one 

 or the other of these lakes, and in the streams flow- 

 ing out of them. The Welsh brown, or cob-fly, 

 dressed lighter in proportion as the season advances, 

 the blue dun, in all its various shades, from dark to 

 bright ; the indispensable coch y bondy, the wren's 

 tail, the orl, the sky-blue, and the black gnat, form 

 a list of flies sufficient, as old Walton observes, to 

 condemn every trout in these waters. Those who 

 do not tye their own, will do well not to make a se- 

 lection until in the neighbourhood where they intend 

 to sport, as long experience enables the native angler 

 to adapt his colours to the waters of his neighbourhood 

 with a precision to which a fly-maker less favourably 

 situated could not be expected to attain. 



