Ramble in the Salzkammergut and Tyrol. 7 



over a pound in weight. Another run soon 

 followed, though nothing was added to the 

 basket ; but it did not take long to secure 

 a second, a little smaller than his companion. 

 To make a long story short, we had several 

 more runs, but obtained only one more addi- 

 tion to our basket a nice fish, nearly a pound 

 and a half in weight ; and so returned, after a 

 couple of hours on the lake, with these three. 

 The fish we had taken were corregoni, but 

 which variety of this still little-known species 

 I cannot say. They were called at the inn 

 alien, but these local names tend rather to con- 

 fuse than to enlighten a traveller. The notice- 

 able fact, however, about this take was, that as 

 a rule it is popularly supposed that the corre- 

 goni are only to be caught with nets, and not 

 by angling ; but the rapidity with which they 

 came to the minnow seems to show that the 

 species which inhabit Aussee are by no means 

 shy fish, or disinclined to take a bait. It 

 would have been interesting to have spent 

 more time on this lake, and to have obtained 

 more definite conclusions from a longer period 

 of fishing than we did in this wander through 

 the Salzkammergut. 



