1 66 ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT FISHERIES 



of October to the middle of February. Should 

 there be high waters, however, they may be seen 

 " running " as early as the first week in August. 



Into various of the Lake District waters the 

 following species of trout have been turned down ; 

 but, except in the case of the Loch Leven trout 

 (if this is a species), the experiments have not 

 been of such a nature as to enable one to draw 

 deductions : 



Loch Leven trout (Salmo Levenensis). 

 American Brook trout (Salmo fontinalis). 

 Rainbow trout (Salmo irideus). 



The first and second have been turned down in 

 the Eden ; the second and third, in limited num- 

 bers, in the Kent ; the first into Windermere. I 

 believe, however, that Levenensis is indigenous to 

 the last-named lake. 



In August, 1826, the Westmorland Gazette con- 

 tained a paragraph stating that a trout had lived 

 fifty-three years in a well in the orchard of Mr. 

 William Mossop, of Broad Hall, near Broughton- 

 in-Furness. 



THE SALMON (Salmo salar) 



With all our practical and scientific means of 

 investigation, it is strange how much remains to be 

 known about the salmon. There are certain phases 

 of its life-history which yet remain a mystery, and 

 which the closest scrutiny has not enabled us to 

 unravel. Its food, its migrations, its spawning, its 

 varying appearance in different rivers these are 

 points on which there is but little precise knowledge. 

 There is, however, one fact in connection with the 



