i io ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT FISHERIES 



trolling, the most successful baits being natural 

 minnow and phantom. The writer has taken two 

 fish on the former to one on the latter ; but others 

 have had a different experience. These baits 

 should be on Nos. 4, 5, or 6 hooks. The best 

 months for trolling are April, May and June. 

 As the season advances, it will be found that 

 trolling will give the best results the later in 

 the day it is pursued, and some very large fish 

 have been taken between midnight and dawn. 



The most killing trout-flies are woodcock (brown 

 floss, silk body) ; partridge (orange body) ; corn- 

 crake (body same colour, with a little gold twist) ; 

 and the drake (fished wet). These should be 

 dressed on Nos. 4, 5 and 6 hooks (Kendal size). 



The best fish are killed during the time of the 

 green and grey drakes, and with the former, 

 in one day, an angler had six trout weighing 

 io Ibs. ; the same gentleman having taken, with 

 fly (corncrake), at the mouth of Brockley Beck, a 

 5j Ibs. trout. Another angler in drake time has 

 taken seven trout in a day, running from I Ib. to 

 3 Ibs. This gentleman (Mr. G. E. Lowthian) upon 

 one occasion had three fish on at the same time 

 (two trout and a perch) and, moreover, managed to 

 kill them. The trout scaled ij Ibs. each. A 

 9! Ibs. trout was caught with minnow in the river 

 (not many yards from the lake), and taking this 

 for a Derwentwater trout it is the largest fish 

 recorded. I possess a photograph, however, of a 

 larger fish, but this was caught in the effluent, the 

 Derwent, near Portinscale, in 1890. Its dimensions 

 are as follows : weight, io Ibs. 2 ozs. ; length, 

 28^ inches ; girth, 17 inches. 



