THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



of Ireland and Wales. So too does the 8almo fario loom up as 

 the lake trout where he grows large and lusty, often a giant, 

 especially large fish haTdng been taken in the Orkneys. A 

 twenty-nine pounder is on record from Lough Derg, known as 

 ' Peppers trout.' Lough Ennel has produced a twenty-six 

 pounder, but whether ' gUaroo ' or ' ferOx,' I know not. 



English sea trout afford great sport, ranging up to twenty 

 pounds. The Thames trout is Salmo fario. When well fed and 

 conditioned he is fat, big, often ponderous, and from the first 

 of April to the thirty-first of August, the sport is excellent to 

 the patient angler. Scientifically, the Brown trout is Salmo 

 fario, and in Wales in the Ehymney there is a hybrid between 

 Salmo trutta and Salmo fario. 



In England there is a representative of the American brook 

 trout known as the charr, saibhng, sea charr, or ombre chevalier, 

 and technically Salvelinus alpinus. The charr is a beautiful 

 little fish, caUed torgoch in Wales. You can find it very generally 

 in the lakes of the United Kingdom, particularly in Loch Doon 

 in Argyleshire, Loch Achilty, Eoss-shire, Loch Knockie in Inver- 

 ness-shire, the Taf, Dochart, Ericht and Fruchie. It rarely ex- 

 ceeds a pound in weight, ranging from a half to two pounds, 

 which suggests very light and gossamer-Mke tackle. 



Loch Leven trout are as well known in America as in Great 

 Britain, and you may take an American Eainbow trout in the 

 Dove if you are very lucky. In years to come, the trout family 

 will be distributed over the world — a work almost accomplished, 



I can imagine no purer deKght than to wander along these 

 beautiful streams of England, casting here and there with the 

 daintiest of tackle, dropping a dry fly into the circle of radia- 

 tions formed by the rising trout. ' John Bickerdyke ' says 

 that as a game fish he prefer? the rainbow to the brown 

 trout. The rainbow does best, that is, he attains greater weight 

 in sluggish rivers, or where he does not have to keep continually 

 in motion, as the Williamson, in Oregon, where sixteen, eighteen 

 and twenty-pound fish are not uncommon. 

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