io6 Rambles with a Fishing-Rod. 



fishing with grasshoppers. Higher up, in the 

 neighbourhood of Klosters, there were opportun- 

 ities of looking into the odd little barrels which 

 numerous anglers carried on their backs. They 

 generally contained two or three small trout, 

 taken with a grasshopper. But I 1 am sure that 

 no real sport can be had in the Laudquart ; 

 though just below the junction of the streams 

 which issue from the Sardasca and Yereina 

 Thaler, and which together form this river, 

 there are some slower pieces of water, where 

 the stream hurries, but somewhat more gently, 

 through pine-forests and cattle-feeding alps. 

 These I noted in a walk to the Sardasca chalets; 

 but as, in the following night, torrents of rain 

 fell, greatly raising the river and making it 

 very turbid, I did not care to go over the same 

 ground without a chance of using a fly, though 

 it should have been a spot where one with a 

 green body ought to have landed some trout. 

 At Davos there is a lake, " Sehr fischreich" 

 say the German guide - books, " where good 

 trout-fishing may be had," say the Englishmen. 

 It is about a mile in length, and half a mile 

 in breadth. On one side are those green well- 

 watered slopes so characteristic of Switzerland ; 



