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Season for fishing peculiar variety. 



which weighed twenty-six pounds, and another, 

 some years ago, in Lough Neagh, in Ireland, that 

 weighed thirty pounds. 



Trouts are said to be in season from Match to 

 September. They are, however, fatter from the 

 middle to the end of August than at any other 

 time. 



This fish is not easily caught with a line, being 

 at all times exceedingly circumspect. The baits 

 used are worms or artificial flies. The season for 

 fishing is from March till Michaelmas. Cloudy 

 weather is generally preferred for angling, but 

 there is no particular time of day. 



In countries where this fish abounds, it is 

 pickled in the same manner as salmon, or salted 

 like the herring. At the source of the Orbe, 

 which rises in a rock in the canton of Bern, in 

 Switzerland, are found trouts which have the 

 taste of crabs, and are of a very superior flavour 

 if dressed when just taken. 



In several countries the sovereigns have re- 

 served to themselves the right of fishing for trout, 

 and have forbidden it to be caught under severe 

 penalties. In Saxony the fishing for it is prohi- 

 bited, under pain of imprisonment ; in other pro* 

 vinces of Germany it is punished with the loss of 

 a hand, and in the kingdom of Congo, in Africa, 

 with death. 



A variety of the trout naturally deformed, hav- 

 ing a singular crookedness near the tail, is found 



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