THE CHAR. 263 



Although these fish in a culinary point of view 

 are deservedly the most highly prized of all our 

 permanently fresh water species, we are sorry to 

 say that they are seldom attainable by the angler's 

 skill. Of late years, however, they have certainly 

 risen more freely in the meres of the north of Eng- 

 land than in former times ; but the capture of a 

 char by rod and line is still regarded as an uncom- 

 mon occurrence. In angling for this fish the same 

 flies may be used as those best adapted for the 

 smaller sized lake-trouts ; and as the latter may 

 be said to occur wherever the former is found, the 

 sportsman has the better chance of making amends 

 for the probable disappointment which will attend 

 his pursuit of the one, by a more successful capture 

 of the other. 



We owe the following interesting memoranda to 

 our esteemed nephew, Mr. John Wilson, Junior, 

 of Elleray. " The season for fishing char (with rod 

 and line) in Windermere and Coniston, commences 

 about the end of May, and, I should say, is over by 

 the first or second week in July. Trolling with a 

 smallish minnow is by far the most successful mode 

 of angling for this fish. It may, however, be taken 

 with the artificial fly, the green and grey drake 

 being the favourites. I killed three one day in 

 May last with a small red professor. A Bowness 

 fisherman on the same day, trolling without inter- 

 down the Lake of Windermere, at the mouth or a short way up- 

 wards of the stream called Troutbeck, which is also derived from 

 the flow of mountain tributaries, without ari^ lesser or intermediate 

 lake. 



