ANGLING. 



and if it do not turn nimbly, then turn the tail a 

 little to the right or left hand, and try again, till 

 it turn quick. We may add, that the practice of 

 fishing with the artificial minnow is justly dis- 

 carded by all judicious anglers. 



THE GREAT LAKE TROUT.* - 



It appears that this gigantic trout of the British 

 fresh-water lakes, though never clearly characte- 

 rized as a distinct species, has at various times ex- 

 cited the attention of Ichthyologists. Trout of 

 enormous dimensions are mentioned by Pennant as 

 occurring in the Welsh lakes ; and Donovan gives 

 Loch Neagh in Ireland as another locality. Very 

 large trout have been killed in Ullswater in Cum- 

 berland, and still larger in Loch Awe in Argyll- 

 shire. We stated elsewhere several seasons back, 

 that the late Mr. Morrison of Glasgow claimed the 

 merit of first calling attention to this fish in the 

 last named locality towards fifty years ago. " We 

 doubt very much," says Mr. Stoddart, "the strength 

 of his claims to this discovery ; and from enquiries 

 made by us at Dalmally, Cladish, Inveraw, and 

 other parts of the surrounding country, we are led 

 to believe that this species of trout has been well 

 known there from time immemorial ; nay, it is im- 

 possible but that individuals of the kind must have 



* Salmoferoa;, Jardine. We were originally indebted for the prin- 

 cipal materials of our account of this interesting fish to a manuscript 

 of Sir William Jardine, with which we were kindly favoured by the 

 author. It forms a part of a Series of Memoirs on British Fishes 

 especially the Salmonidce which that accurate and assiduous natu- 

 ralist has been for some time past preparing for publication. 



