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VIII. 



THE PROFESSIONAL FISHERMAN OF 

 THE EASTERN ALPS. 



professional fresh-water fisherman is a 

 -*- person quite unknown among the sporting 

 characters of Great Britain. For though here 

 and there in Scotland and Ireland there are 

 men who make their living by trout and salmon 

 fishing, it is rather as attendants on anglers 

 than as fishermen themselves. But in the 

 Alps, and on the various rivers and lakes which 

 are fed by these great mountains, all this is 

 changed. The angler as such, the man who 

 fishes in his leisure hours for the sake of sport, 

 may be said to be wholly unknown; and the 

 trout and grayling of the rivers of Austria and 

 Bavaria fall victims not to the scientific lures 

 of the fishing amateur, but to the nets and 



