CHAPTER IV. 



LAKE TROUT. 



Habits and Haunts — Ferox and Gillaroo — Some Useful Flies — 

 Fly-fishing from the Shore— Management of the Boat — 

 Dapping with the Green Drahe — Spinning, or Trolling — 

 The Live Bait — Worm-fishing. 



AKE TROUT are simply brown trout or sea 

 trout wliicli liave taken up their abode in 

 lakes, but spawn in tributary streams. 

 They vary principally according to their 

 food, but the nature of the bottom has 

 a great effect on their colouring. When 

 trout only are found in a lake, they usually 

 rise well to the fly; but where coarse fish 

 are present in great quantities, as on the large Irish lakes, the 

 fly is not much use, except when the May-fly carnival is on. 

 Generally speaking, fly-fishing in the lakes of Scotland and 

 Ireland is capital sport. In some lakes, myriads of small trout 

 will be found, which may not average five to the pound; but in 

 others, such as Loch Leven, the average will be about lib. a 

 fish. In the very large lakes, well stocked with all kinds of 

 fish, trout grow to an immense size ; a few years ago, a Mr. 

 Pepper caught one weighing over 291b., in Lough Derg, on a 

 pike-bait; it is an historical fish, and is always spoken of as 

 "Peppei;'s trout." 



There are two varieties of lake trout deserving special 



