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snipe. The tarn certainly contains brown trout, and 

 is reputed to contain a " scaled " variety running 

 up to a pound in weight; but although I have 

 fished the tarn at every hour of the day and night 

 I have never been fortunate enough to catch one 

 of these fish. Speaking generally, the Red Tarn 

 fishing cannot be recommended, although late 

 in the season a fair take may sometimes be had 

 with winged flies at dusk. The tarn is occa- 

 sionally fished with the now illegal "lath," or 

 " otter." On Striding Edge, which overhangs 

 Red Tarn, a cross marks the spot where a mountain 

 foxhunter, named Dixon, was killed ; and near by 

 is the spot where the remains of the young Quaker, 

 Gough, who perished in a snowstorm on the hills, 

 were, for three months, watched by his dog a 

 touching incident commemorated by both Words- 

 worth and Scott. 



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