AUGUST. 



CHAR FISHING. 



BY H. A. BRYDEN. 



OF all our fishes the Char is, perhaps, the most fascinating, 

 whether from the aesthetic or from the sporting point of view. 

 The wonderful colouring, sometimes crimson pink, sometimes 

 ruddy orange, with which the lower parts of its silvery body is 

 suffused, the rarity of its occurrence and the extreme difficulty 

 attending its capture, render this fish not only an object of unique 

 interest to the naturalist, but also of pleasure to the angler, 

 in the rare and fleeting moments when it is in the vein and will 

 come briskly to the fly. 



In these islands the waters in which Char may be found are to 

 be counted almost upon the fingers of one's hands. In the 

 lake district, Windermere, Buttermere, Lake Ennerdale, and 

 Crummock Water, all contain fair numbers. In Ulleswater, which 

 formerly held Char in abundance, the fish is quite extinct ; and of 

 Coniston, thanks to its pollution by the copper mines, the same 

 miserable tale is to be told. A few waters of Wales, chiefly 

 in Merioneth, still support Char, while in Scotland in the depths of 

 Loch Tay, Loch Fewin, Loch Earn, Loch Roy, Loch Lubnaig, 

 Loch Inch and a few other lakes, this most brilliant member 



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