ANGLING. 



mission from six in the morning till six in the even- 

 ing, killed six and twenty, being the greatest number 

 that has been taken in Windermere in a single day 

 by one person for many years. In Coniston, where 

 this fish is more abundant, I believe it is by no 

 means uncommon to kill three or four dozen in a 

 day. In regard to the size of char in Winder- 

 mere, I should say they average three to the pound. 

 I never saw one that was a pound. Billy Balmer 

 told me that he saw one that was a pound and a 

 quarter, and that it was the largest ever taken in 

 Windermere." 



In relation to the same subject, in a different 

 locality, we may also add the following extract of 

 a letter with which we have been favoured from 

 another skilful hand. " A small red char is found 

 in Loch Achilty, Ross-shire, on the property of 

 Sir George Mackenzie. It takes the fly greedily 

 in warm still weather, and what is singular, during 

 all the summer and autumnal months. I have 

 captured eighteen in a forenoon in July, raising 

 many more. My flies were of various sorts, from 

 a midge to one as large as a sea trout fly. The 

 water of Loch Achilty is singularly deep and 

 transparent, the soil is rich and loamy, and con- 

 tains large quantities of imbedded wood, black 

 oak especially. It is supplied by numbers of 

 minute streams, but has no visible outlet, being 

 supposed to discharge itself subterraneously. The 

 char found in it average eight or nine inches in 

 length; we, hoover, caught one much larger. 

 They rise with less velocity than the trout, and 



