SMALLER LAKES 



A grilse of 5 Ibs., and a salmon 1 1 Ibs. have been 

 killed on trout tackle on different occasions, but to 

 get a freshly run salmon on Crummock is a rare 

 event. Kelts are sometimes troublesome. Upon 

 one occasion Mr. Marshall's men took a 16 Ibs. 

 salmon in the nets near the effluent of the lake. 

 Salmon, of course, spawn in Crummock as well as 

 in Buttermere and the head waters and sea trout 

 run in the autumn. 



The eastern side of Crummock affords much the 

 best fishing, a wooded promontory on the south- 

 east shore being particularly good. This also 

 applies to the long stretch of wooded shore near 

 Scale Hill ; and round the islands should be 

 carefully fished. Of these Crummock has four, but 

 their picturesqueness is lost owing to their being 

 near the mainland. Another splendid bit of trout 

 ground is the great sloping gravel bed at the 

 foot of Mellbreak. In the past, more so than now, 

 local anglers used to get a variety of trout up to 

 10 Ibs. and 12 Ibs. Whether these were merely big 

 brown trout or 5. ferox is a question. The natives 

 call them expressively " hardheads." A 13 Ibs. fish 

 of this description was taken by a gentleman when 

 fly-fishing but it had swallowed a small trout 

 which had taken his fly. These big fish were 

 mainly taken in the autumn with worm, when the 

 angler was fishing at a stream mouth in a spate ; 

 and many a man has suddenly been given to 

 wonder what he had got hold of. 



Crummock is a specially interesting lake in 



one boat had 25 trout. The best in fact, very nearly all 

 fishing is with the fly ; a good breeze and a clear sky being 

 stated as the requisite atmospherical conditions by the 

 kabiluts? 



