THE GAME PISHES OF THE WOELD 



Other lakes which are beautiful and well stocked are St. 

 Wolfgang, Mond Lake and the Atter, also the Teichl Eiver, Upper 

 Austria, Gleinker Lake and many more. Salzburg, with its 

 central hill and charming surroundings, is one of the most attrac- 

 tive cities in Europe from almost any standpoint. It is the capital 

 of the province, and may be made a charming headquarters 

 from which to go a-fishing to almost aU points of the compass. 

 It is the heart of Austria and Austria's angling. In St. Wolfgang 

 there is a variety of game, lake trout, chub, trout, pike, charr, 

 perch, barbel, bleak, coregonus. The fishing here is controlled 

 by Mr. Johann HopUnger, from whom privileges can be obtained. 



This mention of the names of private parties controlling the 

 fisheries may appear strange, particularly to American anglers, 

 who claim as tax payers the right to fish anywhere in state or 

 government lands. 



In California a movement is on foot to enable the public to 

 fish in every stream, pubHc or private, that has been stocked 

 at the expense of the State, which means the whole people. I 

 agreed with this myself, with the proviso that the only lure per- 

 mitted should be flies. The average fisherman is after pounds 

 and numbers, and cares little for the esthetics of the sport, or 

 the fact that he should leave something for a friend on the 

 morrow ; hence fly fishing has few charms for him. The rights 

 to certain waters are purchased or rented from the Government, 

 principally by hotel-keepers, who in turn care for them in the 

 interests of their patrons, all of which in the end is to the advan- 

 tage of the angler. 



ZeUer Lake should be visited by the angler for its mountains, 

 which are capped with snow and ten thousand feet high, so that 

 in casting your Eoyal Coachman, it is lost in the refiection of a 

 snow-bank of the Kitzsteinbom. The Tyrol has in round num- 

 bers thirty-seven hundred miles of trout and grayling streams, 

 and its lakes and ponds cover an area equivalent to twelve 

 thousand five hundred acres, about which are some of the most 

 beautiful and picturesque resorts in Europe. In contemplating 

 194 



