THE GREAT LAKE TROUT. 



been taken centuries ago, during the spawning sea- 

 son, in the Urchay, Awe, and other rivers, by the 

 ancient method of destroying fish with the leister. 11 

 Now, nobody ever supposed that Mr. Morrison 

 actually invented Salmoferox, but ourself and others 

 merely desire to insinuate we do not even assert it 

 positeevety -that the ingenious gentleman in ques- 

 tion seems to have been the first to call towards 

 it the attention of modern anglers. That it was 

 killed and eaten by hungry Celts from the earliest 

 ages of the world, is, we doubt not, certain. In- 

 deed, philologists are not wanting who derive the 

 very name of that exposed people from the circum- 

 stance of their winter food consisting frequently of 

 Kelts (in Gaelic Ceeoagchghalts), or ill-conditioned 

 fishes of the genus Salmo, including alike the solar, 

 eriox, trutta, fario, ferox. At all events, we grant 

 our " Scottish Angler" that kilts and kelts must 

 have struggled oft for mastery in many a Highland 

 water. 



This huge species attains a weight of from 20 to 

 SO pounds, and is of great power, even in compari- 

 son with its gigantic size. It may be said, indeed, 

 to be by far the most powerful of our fresh water 

 fishes, exceeding the salmon in actual strength, 

 though not in activity. The most general size 

 caught by trolling, ranges from 3 to 1 5 pounds, be- 

 yond which weight they are of uncommon occur- 

 rence. The largest recorded to have been killed in 

 Loch Awe amounted to 25 pounds, and the heaviest 

 we have lately heard of as captured there, was a 

 few ounces under 20 pounds. Mr. Lascelles, from 



