312 C RUM MOCK WATER. 



and occasionally a good ripple, I do not despair 

 of some success. What flies should I use ? 



PISCATOR. At this season, the March Brown 

 answers well here, and flies of that kind, the 

 prevailing colour of which is brown. Ah ! there 

 was a rise, and the fish is hooked. Boatman, 

 be ready with the landing-net. It plays feebly. 

 See, now we have him, he is not worth keeping ; 

 for though exceeding half a pound, he is ill- 

 fed, flabby, and unfit for the table. I shall 

 return him to his element, to get into better 

 condition. This lake, like Wastwater, is not 

 an early one, and probably owing to the 

 same cause, the coldness of its water. You 

 have a fish, but it is a small one, yet of a 

 length about nine inches that according 

 to the rules established here, may be killed; 

 a licence, you will say and truly, showing that 

 the trout of this lake are not first-rate in size. 



AMICUS. I hope they make compensation 

 in quality. The fish I have just taken is in 

 good condition, though not equal in brightness 

 or thickness to the trout you captured in Der- 

 wentwater. 



PISCATOR. When in best condition, they are 

 hardly equal to the Derwentwater trout, the 



