150 THE CHARR. 



lakes, where, finding sufficient food at the bottom, they do not ap- 

 proach the surface to look for it. 



They are usually caught with nets, at the time they enter 

 the streams communicating with the lakes for the purpose of 

 depositing their spawn, which takes place about the months of 

 November and December ; but at this time they are out of season 

 and very different from the splendid fish that sometimes falls to 

 the angler's lot during the summer months, at which time these 

 fish are in their highest state of perfection. 



