124 ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT FISHERIES 



Owing to its shallowness this is a good lake for 

 night fishing from the sides with winged flies, and 

 this method is most successful after a hot day. As 

 twilight deepens into darkness it is well to put on 

 fairly large bustards. 



What a skilled angler might do on Loweswater 

 trolling for trout from sunset to dark can only be 

 surmised but it is certain that the result would 

 constitute a red-letter day in his existence. If any 

 reader ever gets this opportunity let him use two 

 rods, having a natural minnow on one, on the other 

 an artificial a pearl minnow for preference. 



Cormorants fish this lake a great deal, particularly 

 in autumn. One which was shot when it came up 

 after a long dive disgorged a Jib. trout. 



A friend sends me the following interesting note 

 as to the means which have been taken to keep up 

 the stock of trout in Loweswater, a private sheet 

 of water, and one of the best stocked lakes in the 

 district. He writes : 



" I may tell you my opinion on the results of a small 

 hatchery which has been carried on for some years on the 

 shores of Loweswater. The attendant is a gamekeeper of 

 Mr. Marshall's, the owner of the property. I have had this 

 hatchery under my eyes for three or four years, and have 

 seen the results, which are, without doubt, very good. I do 

 not know any place in England which is as full of trout as 

 Loweswater ; and Crummock, the adjoining lake, has a very 

 fair stock. Both are fished hard with rod, and are netted for 

 trout fairly regularly in parts, so that there is a constant and 

 steady depletion of fish ; and yet the means of artificial 

 propagation keep up the stock to a very full head. The 

 hatching apparatus is in a sort of hog-house shed, and con- 

 sists of three troughs with glass-grills. The ova are obtained 

 from trout on the estate, and the keeper conducts the whole 

 of the hatching operations. For some years they tried 

 keeping the fish until one- and two-years-old, but they 



