62 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



money. You know the Lea? not a morning's 

 walk from Lunnun. Mary Gibson, my first sweet- 

 heart, lived by the bridge, caught such a trout 

 there by the by! had beautiful eyes black, 

 round as a cherry five feet eight without shoes 

 might have listed in the forty-second/ " 



Bulwers Eugene Aram, 1832. 



The Welsh Coracle Trackle, or Fishing Boat. 

 They are constructed of willow twigs, in the 

 manner of basket work, and are covered with a 

 raw hide, or canvas, pitched in such a manner as 

 to be water-proof; they are generally five feet 

 and a half long, and four broad, their bottom is 

 a little rounded, and their shape resembles the 

 half of a walnut-shell, a seat across the centre, 

 towards the broad end. The angler paddles 

 with one hand, and casts his flies with the other, 

 and when his work is finished brings his boat 

 home on his back. They are used in fly-fishing, 

 for grayling as well as trout. 



Hansard's Trout Fishing. 



Mill-Burnfoot Trout. At Thankerton, 1811, 

 in the river Clyde, might be seen at the top of the 

 bridge, when the water was transparent, a trout, 

 which had been an inhabitant of these places 

 twenty years, and had also eluded every artifice 

 the ingenuity of sportsmen had devised to catch 



