CHAPTER III 



PIKE FISHING IN LAKES 



IT will have been noticed in previous chapters that 

 the stories, true and false, of monster pike have been 

 almost entirely connected with lakes, and there can 

 be no doubt that fish of exceptional size must be 

 found in such sheets of water, great and small, 

 at least in England and Ireland. Ireland is especially 

 rich in lakes which, by comparison with our English 

 waters, may be accounted inland seas. On Derg, 

 Corrib, or Mask, it is easy to be wrecked in your 

 yacht, and the winds and waves are often too much 

 for the boldest fishermen. In our general view of 

 pike fishing in lakes these expanses of water may 

 therefore be dismissed with but a passing reference. 

 It is in the sheltered bays and upon the weedy 

 shallows of the Irish loughs that pike fishing is in the 

 main to be enjoyed successfully. At the same time 

 it may be remarked that the pike-yielding qualities of 



