ISO ANGLING 



crooked teeth, acts as a kind of sucker, and enables him 

 to hold fast to many substances with singular tenacity. 

 A lamprey of three pounds has been known to lift a 

 weight of twelve pounds. 



We shall not enter into any detailed account of the 

 methods of fishing for the loach, minnow, and ruife. 

 These are known to most schoolboys of ten or twelve 

 years of age in every section of the kingdom. 



Note to Chaptek XII 



The char ought by right to have been included amongst the 

 salmon and trout, for it is a true member of the salmon family. 

 It is a very beautiful fish, and, as is said in the opening sentence 

 of the chapter, is limited in its localities. The char occurs some- 

 what plentifully in Windermere and other North country lakes, 

 and may be found also occasionally in Ireland. In Norway and 

 Sweden it is reckoned as one of the regular game fishes, and is 

 often caught by the angler. In Great Britain the fly-fisher is 

 seldom fortunate enough to find the char, which love the deepest 

 water, in a himiour to take his flies ; but they do afi'ord sport 

 with a peculiar method of worm-fishing. It is scarcely fair to 

 include so beautiful a fish amongst the "small fry of the angler," 

 for he is one of the aristocracy of British fishes, and deserving of 

 some better classification than company with the bleak, lamprey, 

 minnow, loach, and ruife. The salmo fomtinalis, which has been 

 acclimatised in British waters from North America, is actually a 

 char, but Its introduction into our rivers is not regarded as a 

 success. — W. S. 



