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For fishing" in the lake from the boat (of the quaint " hnes " of 

 which I am able to give a faithful portrait) more skill was required 

 than for fishing the pools in the river ; at any rate, neither my wife 

 nor I ever managed to get more than one or two, while Sir Walter 

 Corbet had not the slightest trouble in landing any number. 



The fishino- rioht in these waters, the excellence of which the 

 foregoing will sufficiently illustrate, was but little valued by the owner 

 of the preserve, and in fact no charge was made for it, though if we 

 kept the trout for our own consumption we had to pay 2S. dd. per 

 kilo (2 lbs.) for them, they being worth twice that price at the nearest 

 country town. 



In some of the larger lakes in Austria another species of salmon 

 [Saibling, or S. salvelimis, L.) is to be found. In deep lakes they 

 grow to a very large size — I remember one weighing over 70 lbs. 

 being caught many years ago in the St. Wolfgang lake, which formed 

 part of my father's property in Upper Austria. 



In conclusion, I may draw the attention of English fishermen to 



one salmonoid for which the Danube is famous, for it is found in no 



other water. This is the Hiichen [Salmo hucho), which 



Hucho. 

 reaches a length of 6 feet and a weight of 60 lbs. 



In March and April it ascends the headwaters of the Danube to 



spawn, it being frequently seen in such elevated streams as the Ziller 



in Tyrol, at an elevation of something like 2,000 feet over the level 



of the Black Sea. It takes the spoon and also the fly, but is generally 



speared by the peasants when it reaches the shallow headwaters of 



the Danube. 



