50 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



Longevity of Trout. Mr. W. Hossop, of Bond 

 Hall y Furness, placed a small fellbeck trout, about 

 fifty-three years ago, when a boy, into a well in the 

 orchard belonging to his family, where it remained 

 ever since, till last week, when it died, not through 

 sickness or infirmity, but for want of its natural 

 element, water, the severe drought drying up the 

 spring that supplied the well. His lips and gills 

 were perfectly white ; he regularly came to be fed 

 by his master's hand when called by the name of 

 Ned. Westmoreland Advertiser, 1834. 



The grey trout in Ulswaterh&ve reached fifty or 

 sixty pounds ; lightish grey, with very small spots. 

 One caught in 1812, at Cottishall, in Norfolk, 

 was thirty-nine inches long, and weighed sixteen 

 pounds ; one caught in the Stour, 1797, weighed 

 twenty-six pounds. New Monthly Mag. 



Whilst Captain Medwin was fishing in a mill- 

 dam, his friend hooked a trout which proved too 

 strong for his tackle, and he lost it : five minutes 

 after the Captain found himself violently tugged, 

 and succeeded in landing a trout of three pounds, 

 with the identical hook and tackle of his companion 

 in its mouth. Angler. 



Trout are taken in a river in Cardiganshire, 

 the back bones of which are crooked. 



Phil. Trans. Art. xxiii. 1767. 



