THE GWYNIAD AND VENDACE. 151 



The Gwyniad and Venda.ce. 



There are also two fishes somewhat resembling a herring, but 

 having the dorsal fins peculiar to the salmonidse, the former called 

 a gwyniad, and the latter the vendace, both species found in some 

 of our lakes ; but it seems that neither kind is ever taken by 

 anglers, nor are they held in very great esteem, so that any 

 further notice of them in a work of this kind would be super- 

 fluous. 



The Smelt. 



Before taking my final leave of the salmonidae, I cannot pass 

 over the smelt, which, though last and least, is a truly delicious 

 fish. Like the salmon it inhabits both the fresh and salt water, 

 chiefly keeping within the influence of the tide. It will bite freely 

 at small red worms, paste, preserved salmon spawn, soft crab, or 

 a piece of boiled shrimp, and when the water is salt or brackish at 

 the rag or hairy worm that inhabits the mud left by the receding 

 tide, A long rod is advisable to give you a command over your 

 line, which should be always fished with shorter than the rod. A 

 gut foot line about a yard long, with four or five baited hooks 

 looped on one above the another, called a paternoster line, should 

 be used. The hooks should be very small, and the baits in propor- 

 tion. You may fish either with or without a float. The plan I 

 have generally found the most successful is to use no float, and 



