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PISCATOR. Of the latter, a good part you will 

 see yourself to-day, and I am sure you will be 

 pleased with it : I wish I could give you the 

 same assurance respecting the fish, which are 

 more easily named and described than caught. 

 They are the trout and charr, the pike and 

 perch, and eel. A salmon has occasionally 

 been taken, but hitherto so rarely, that Win- 

 dermere cannot be considered a salmon lake. All 

 the fish of this lake are good of their kind ; 

 none better. The trout range in size from half 

 a pound and under to three and four pounds 

 and over, though fish so heavy as the latter are 

 not often taken. The charr are mostly of about 

 half a pound, and rather under than over this 

 weight. The fisherman we have with us says 

 the largest he has ever taken weighed nineteen 

 ounces. Two kinds are met with, which are 

 called the silver and red or gilt charr ; the latter 

 distinguished by its bright red metallic lustre 

 markings. It is said to spawn later than the 

 other, viz., in the beginning of February ; the 

 silver or light coloured charr spawning chiefly 

 in November. I apprehend they are merely 

 varieties, owing their differences chiefly to their 

 feed, and it may be to the quality of the water 



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