250 ANGLING. 



seldom either to ascend the rivers which enter the 

 loch, or to descend the Awe itself to any extent, 

 though an occasional straggler has been taken some 

 way down the river. When in good season, and 

 in their strongest condition, they appear to roam 

 indiscriminately through every part of the loch, 

 though there are certain spots which may be more 

 depended upon than others, and where an experi- 

 enced angler will have little difficulty in hooking 

 one of these fine fish. To their great strength we 

 may observe, that they add unequalled rapacity ; 

 and after attaining to the weight of three or four 

 pounds, they seem to feed almost exclusively on 

 smaller fishes, not sparing even their own off- 

 spring, and may be regarded as great an enemy 

 to their smaller companions even as the all-devour- 

 ing pike. A small trout of this species, not weigh- 

 ing more than one and a half pound, will often dash 

 at a bait not much inferior to itself in size ; and 

 instances are recorded of larger fish following with 

 eager eyes, and attempting to seize upon others of 

 their own kind which had been hooked, and were 

 in the act of being landed by the angler. It is, we 

 presume, on account of this strong manifestation of 

 a more than usually predaceous disposition that Sir 

 William Jardine has named the species Salmo 

 ferox.* 



It is indeed, in one sense, a fish of remarkable 



* We believe this great lake trout corresponds to the species 

 previously named Salmo lacitstris by Berkenhout, but as the latter 

 title is applied by foreign naturalists to a continental kind, which 

 is not regarded as identical with our own, its adoption might lead at 

 least to the nominal amalgamation of two distinct species, and should 

 therefore be avoided. 



