Pike-Fishing in the Black Forest. 25 



ing small trout-streams, almost devoid of trout, 

 excepting a few large ones which have sur- 

 vived a youth of peril. As soon as I began to 

 talk to Herr Otto Ganter, the landlord of the 

 Zum Steruen, I soon found that he was a 



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fisherman himself, and, like all of the craft, 

 greatly loved to catch his fish over again. As 

 proof of his skill, he showed me in his tank a 

 jack of seven pounds which he had taken the 

 previous day. But what pleased him most was 

 to tell of the huge pike which, a year or two 

 before, an Italian prince had had the good 

 fortune to catch in the lake. It was 30 Ib. 

 in weight; and this piscatorial feat was pre- 

 served for future anglers by a photographer 

 at Ober Lenzkirch, who pictured the prince 

 like St George over the Dragon, with the 

 pike lying at his feet. A photograph had also 

 been taken of the fish alone, and certainly I 

 have seldom seen a finer specimen of a pike. 

 It was easy to understand he would be hard to 

 land; indeed Herr Ganter affirmed that the 

 contest between prince and pike lasted for 

 three hours. The result of mine host's best 

 day's fishing this summer (1874) was 30 Ib. 

 of fish ; but he seemed to consider from 15 to 



