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CHAPTER VII. 

 Oy LAKE FISHING. 



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IN lake fishing, the inodva operandi will depend very 

 much upon whether the angler fishes from a boat or from 

 the shore. In the first event, his task is a comparatively 

 easy one, as he will drift along with very little more aid 

 from the paddles than is required to keep the boat straight 

 and the proper distance from the shore. He will rarely 

 paddle himself; but if he should, he will need to know 

 something of the shores of the loch and where the trout 

 frequent. If he has a boatman, the boatman will prob- 

 ably know the best spots to go to, and the lay of the 

 trout. 



It is always desirable, from a boat, to cast it towards 

 the shore. The distance the boat must be kept from the 

 shore will be entirely determined by the weeds, and by 

 the precipitous nature or otherwise of the shores of the 

 lake. Lakes differ exceedingly in the lay of their fish. 

 .Some lakes have very little fishing-ground a mere strip 

 round the shores, the water going down into the deep 

 very suddenly, and leaving but little feeding-ground. In 

 such lakes the fish are generally both small and ill-fed. 

 Others again, like Loch Awe and Loch Leven, have beauti- 

 ful large bays half a mile or more in radius, every inch of 

 which may be fine fishing-ground. The great perfection 

 and capacity of Loch Leven results from there being F,O 



