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examined, differed so little from the common trout, as to induce a 

 belief that the gillaroo was only a variety of it, as stated by 

 Pennant. 



In some of the lakes in Wales, and also in Loch Dow, in In- 

 verness- shire, a species of deformed trout is to be met with, 

 having a short head, and upper jaw, formed like that of a bull 

 dog, whilst the lower jaw is considerably elongated, making as 

 ill looking a countenance for a trout as a human face would be 

 minus a nose, and to which it bears some remote resemblance, as 

 may be perceived from an engraving of one of these fishes taken 

 from Loch Dow, and which appears in the second volume of Yar- 

 rell's British Fishes. 



There is also the great lake trout, which inhabits some of the 

 larger lakes in the Northern Counties of England, as also some of 

 the lochs in Scotland and Ireland, that is sometimes of so immense 

 a size as to weigh upwards of fifty pounds. It is a distinct spe- 

 cies from the common trout, and confines itself to the lakes, 

 rarely ascending or descending into any of the streams commu- 

 nicating with them. It usually spawns about the month of 

 September. Some further observations will be made upon this 

 fish when we come to treat of lake fishing. 



It appears, also, that a lake in South Wales, called Lyndive, is 

 remarkable for a species of trout with red and black spots about 

 the size of fourpenny pieces, and others wholly unmarked, and of 

 a reddish colour. These fish sometimes grow to as large a size 

 as ten pounds, but are said not to be so well tasted as the common 

 trout. A trout was also taken in Lynallet, in Derbyshire, the 

 sides of which were tinged with a purplish bloom, both above and 

 below the lateral line, which was straight and marked with deep 

 purplish spots ; in other respects it seems to have resembled the 

 common trout. 



The trout has a remarkably quick sight, even for objects out of 

 the water ; and therefore the advice of honest Izaak to fish fine 

 and far off, should always be attended to. Many a good fish 

 having been lost by peeping over the banks, instead of adhering 

 to his instructions, by which means you not only mar your own 

 sport, but that of your companions also ; and it is not one of the 

 least among the annoyances you may encounter in your angling 

 pursuits to fish in company with some clumsy bungler, who scares 

 away a very multitude of fishes, not one of whom he has the 



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