28 ART OF ANGLING. 



put the hook in at the head and out at the neck 

 of the first, and quite through the other from 

 head to tail. Two brandlings, or small red 

 worms, may be fished with in the same way. 



Before you send Trout on a journey, always 

 have them cleaned and gutted, and let them be 

 laid on their backs, and closely packed in a 

 willow basket with dry straw. Packing in damp 

 grass or rushes is apt to ferment, and therefore 

 liable to spoil the fish. 



THE ALPINE TROUT, or GILT CHARR, 

 abounds in the lakes of Ulswater and Winan- 

 dermere, in Westmoreland, and in the lakes of 

 Llyn Quellyn near the foot of Snowdon, in North 

 Wales ; it is in length about twelve inches ; its 

 colour silvery, with the back strongly tinged 

 with olive-green, and the sides thickly freckled 

 with very minute bright-red and blackish specks; 

 its head very large, and scales very small ; on 

 the whole, it is similar to the common Trout, 

 only rather broader. Those which inhabit the 

 clearest and coldest waters are observed to be 

 of the richest colours. It is a fish of great del- 

 icacy of flavour, and much esteemed as food. 



The Alpine Trout may be successfully angled 

 for with any of the Trout baits, but more par- 

 ticularly with the fly. 



