PIKE AND PIKE-FISHING. 59 



this fish in their various reaches. In Wales, pike are to be found 

 in Bala and Llangorse lakes, whilst they abound in parts of the 

 Dee and Severn ; and in the Wye from Builth downwards. 



Conn, Cullen, Mask, and other Irish loughs have yielded some 

 huge fish, and must contain others ; although, doubtless, they 

 harbour none quite so large or so ancient as the famous Mannheim 

 pike, previously mentioned, in whose gills a brass ring was dis- 

 covered upon which was inscribed a Greek legend. 



But it is impossible here to enumerate even one half of the 

 waters either good or indifferent wherein dwells " the fell tyrant 

 of the wat'ry plain." And, great as are the possibilities in the way 

 of pike-fishing presented by England, far greater are offered by 

 Ireland. 



