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success, it is so bright ; and the little wind that 

 is, is from a bad quarter, the chilling and 

 inauspicious east. Would that we had a west- 

 erly or south-westerly breeze, and that the 

 month was April or May, when the fishing is 

 best, instead of September, when I believe it is 

 worst. I have heard of an angler who, at a 

 favourable time and season, has killed here in 

 one day, with his single rod, fourteen dozen, 

 many of a pound, but the majority under six 

 ounces. Further to enhance your opinion of 

 Ennerdale Lake as a fishing station, I may 

 mention, that trout even of six pounds are 

 occasionally taken with the troll, and even of 

 eight pounds with the net ; and that it is fre- 

 quented by the salmon. And now, whilst wield- 

 ing our rods, I fear to little purpose, tell me, 

 if you please, of your " gut-finer," for it is new 

 to me. 



AMICUS. It is very simple, a steel blade, 

 about four inches long, and less than one wide, 

 in which sixteen circular apertures have been 

 drilled, each provided with an inner rasping 

 edge, and from the first to the last in regular 

 gradation as to size, so that by passing the gut 

 through them in succession, you may reduce it 



