THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



especially the one taken in the Danube and its Alpine tributaries. 

 The season for the Eed-fish, as it is also -called, is in autumn and 

 winter far into December ; when the waters are low and clear, the 

 summer months are equally good, and of course, most delightful. 

 The spoon is the bait par excellence, and of a size for a possible 

 fifty pounder. When it strikes, the huchen goes into the air 

 with a splendid leap of often three feet, and at once begins 

 a battle royal with the angler who, if he has to play the fish against 

 the stream, wiU soon realize that he has met his match. There 

 is a Fishers Union in Vienna (K. K. Osterreichische Fischereige- 

 sellschaft) 1., Schauflergasse, which issues Ucences and permits 

 for huchen angling in its private preserves in Langenlebam 

 and Muckendorf , but fifteen minutes by rail from Vienna, from 

 which aU information regarding the huchen and its haunts and 

 the angling chances may be obtained. 



In this vicinity is the Paznaun Valley with the wild river 

 Trisanna, the Pitz Valley and the glacier-fed Pitztaler Ache, and 

 the Oetztal running through the Valley of Oetztal, abounding 

 not only in chub and perch, but in hard-fighting Eainbow trout 

 from America. Magnificent scenery characterizes this region. 

 The Grossglockner, the radiant glacial lake, Monte CristaUo in 

 the Dolomites, the Ortler, and who does not know Meran, nestled 

 in the heart of the Tyrolean mountains with its streams abound- 

 ing in grayling, char, pike and trout weighing from six to seven 

 pounds ? 



So one might spend the summer angling and loitering and 

 doing nothing, which means looking at the scenery; angUng 

 down the Adige from Bozen, coming to the ItaHan-speaking 

 part of the Tyrol, and finding the lakes of TobUno, Malveno and 

 Lago di Garda, the finest and largest of the Upper Italian Lakes. 

 It is here that you cast a fly in Austria and reel your trout into 

 sunny Italy, as Garda is on the Une. This beautiful lake, a type 

 of all, contains char, trout, tench, perch, eels, carpiono, in all 

 nearly thirty kinds of fish. Then there are lakes like dreams, 

 Galdonazzo, famed for its pike, Levico, Lago di Serraza, and 

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