igo ANGLING 



higher springs of some of the rivers which are to be 

 met with up the country on the right hand- 

 Assuming that the rod-fisher starts from the town of 

 Preston, where the Ribble, out of Yorkshire, flows into 

 the sea, or from the town of Lancaster, and hends his 

 way to the Lake District, he will find the lakes Coniston- 

 water and Windermere excellent fishing localities. The 

 first-named sheet of water is seven miles long, and 

 averages about three-quarters of a mile in breadth. 

 The scenery around it is captivating in a high degree, 

 and the angling really good. The village of Coniston 

 is a convenient place for refreshment and lodging. 

 There are trout, pike, and perch in the lake, and all 

 of good size. 



Windermere is a more extensive stretch of water 

 than the one just named. Its extent is full eighteen 

 miles, by one in breadth : its greatest depth is two 

 hundred feet. The angler will find char here, as well 

 as trout, pike, and perch. 



Orumniock-waier, Lowes-water, Over-water, and Bas- 

 senthwaite-water are all situated near the north-western 

 extremity of the range of mountains which range 

 beyond and near to Mellbreak. These several lakes 

 are but small in extent ; but they abound with various 

 kinds of fish, and are calculated to afford a fair portion 

 of sport to the rod-fisher. Their several banks are 

 romantically surrounded by rocky promontories and 

 jutting capes and headlands, which impart to all the 

 scenery around and about them peculiar features of 

 sublimity and grandeur. 



Derioent-water and Ulls-water abound with fish of 

 nearly all kinds. Angling is practised on these waters 

 with fiy, by trolling, and by worm and other kinds of 

 ground-bait. There can be no lack of sport to any 

 rod-fisher who is acquainted with even the rudiments 

 of his art. But, to our taste, the Lake District and the 

 lake angling are not so heart-stirring and so engrossing 

 as the river fly-fishing ; and in the two counties of 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland there are rivers of 

 -first-rate excellence for the latter mode of following 



