CHAPTER IV 



SMALL WATERS AND TYPICAL DAYS 



A DIRECT contrast to the lake described in the previous 

 chapter was a narrow lagoon, which probably was once 

 an arm of the German Ocean and is now a freshwater 

 pool, guarded by a dense wall of the tallest reeds ; 

 besides stores of roach and tench, it breeds quantities 

 of somewhat small pike, and no one seems to have 

 heard of anything larger than 12 Ib. ever being taken in 

 angling. A parson from a neighbouring town had on 

 the week of my visit, as I was informed, caught twenty- 

 five fish, none larger than 9 Ib., and there seemed little 

 chance of sport until there had been a longer interval 

 between the fishings. There was no possibility of 

 operating over the lofty reeds, and the boat on such 

 narrow water would have a very disturbing effect. The 

 deepest part of the pool, at the upper end nearest 

 the sea, was not more than ten feet, and the average 

 would be considerably less. 



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