THE GILLAROO. CHARR. 19 



resorts of the anglers: More recently Sunbury, Wey- 

 bridge, Maidenhead, and Marlow Weir have become 

 the favourite places. 



THE GILLAROO* TROUT of Ireland is another 

 large variety. In their native lakes they attain fre- 

 quently four or five pounds weight, but when intro- 

 duced into other waters they often much exceed that 

 weight. This variety affords much excellent sport 

 when hooked, even when small. It is scarcely advis- 

 able, however, to introduce this large variety into 

 ordinary trout streams, as the effects in all probability 

 woyld be similar to those following the introduction 

 of bass in the American trout rivers, the original 

 stock gradually disappearing. Large fish invariably 

 require an enormous amount of food to enable them 

 to grow and flourish, and should never be introduced 

 into water which will not afford the necessary supply. 



CHARR AND POLLAN (Coregonus). Both these fish 

 are extremely local. The first named are found in 

 large lakes, the deepest parts of which they frequent. 

 Like trout, they vary in different waters, chiefly how- 

 ever in colour, which is often most brilliant when 

 they have been freshly taken, the fiery red breast 

 being then marvellously vivid. The torgock, or 

 Welsh charr, is perhaps the most conspicuously 

 coloured. It is found in Llanberis and other lakes 

 in the north of Wales. It is smaller than those of 

 Windermere and other northern lakes, its average 



* So-called from the structural arrangements of the stomach, which 

 is usually as large as a chicken's, in formation resembling the gizzard of 

 the bird known as the gillaroo. 



