ANGLING IN AUSTEIA, GEEMANY 



fishing this region the angler would do weU to write to the Landes- 

 verband fiir Fremdenverkehr in Innsbruck for a little book which 

 is issued gratis — The Tyrol Fishing Book. This contains aU 

 the minute details which lack of space prevents in a volume of this 

 kind. Ausserfern is the name of a district which extends to the 

 frontier of Bavaria, and abounds in fine angling lakes and rivers. 

 About half a mile above the sea, we find Lake Achensee, the 

 largest lake in the Tyrol ; and to fish here, the angler must 

 apply to the monastery of Piecht, near Schwaz, that owns the 

 lake fisheries. There would seem to be a double chance here : 

 the angler could get his licence and confess his sins of exaggera- 

 tion to the good monks. Good waters near here are Schwarzsee, 

 and in St. Johann, Kossen, St. ULrich. The Thiersee near the 

 beautiful town of Kufstein has excellent trout fishing ; and in the 

 lower Inn Eiver you may take that greatest of trout, the Huchen, 

 that is known as salmon and by many names. A fine photograph 

 of one, which weighed forty-six pounds, is here shown, taken by L. 

 Deighnayer, for which I am indebted to Baron Walter von Eum- 

 mel, with whom I had the pleasure of fishing at Santa CataUna. 

 The hueho, huchen or rothfisch is a great trout-hke fish that 

 has been seen weighing nearly one hundred pounds. It is com- 

 mon in many streams, particularly the Danube. It differs from 

 the true Salmo in the vomer being without teeth, and in general 

 appearance it differs materially from the brook trout Scdvelinus. 

 It attains a length of three or four feet, is slender, and looks, in 

 the smaller specimens not unlike a waU-eyed pike, again like a 

 grayling without the big dorsal. It has a depressed, pike-hke 

 snout, and teeth that are devastators to delicate gut. In colour 

 it is often a briOiant silver, with small black spots dotted par- 

 ticularly over its upper surface. It is a good food fish, and in its 

 best condition a hard and splendid fighter, and well called the 

 ' German salmon,' as it certawily in a way takes the place of this 

 great fish. America and England could introduce this noble fish 

 to advantage and its aUy in Japan. 



The huchen has been more than once compared to salmon, 



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