62 TREATISE ON FLY-FISHING, 



September, 1832, which measured thirty-one 

 inches in length, twenty-one in girth, and weighed 

 seventeen pounds. 



A few years since, a notice was sent to the 

 Linnsean Society, of a trout that was caught on 

 the llth January, 1822, in a little stream, ten feet 

 wide, branching from the Avon, at the back of 

 Castle-street, Salisbury. On being taken out of 

 the water, its weight was found to be twenty-five 

 pounds. Mrs. Powell, at the bottom of whose 

 garden the fish was first discovered, placed it in a 

 pond, where it lived some time. 



The age to which trout may arrive, has not 

 been ascertained. Mr. Oliver mentions that in 

 August, 1809, a trout died which had been for 

 twenty-eight years an inhabitant of the well, in 

 Dumbarton Castle. 



A trout died in 1826, which had lived 53 years 

 in a small well in the orchard of Mr. William 

 Mossop, of Board Hall, near Broughton, in 

 Furness. 



