THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



hours by train from Baden where he had excellent sport, using 

 a Montreal or silver Alexandria fly, and a Coachman later ia the 

 day. Mr. Finletter took large grayling and trout here, which 

 he told us about later at the Tuna Club, and also about the 

 delightful angling Inn, at which he found congenial spirits, the 

 Golden Ochesen at Tiengen. 



In writing of trout fishing in Germany, I am reminded of the 

 celebrated case of the anglers of the Frankfort-on-the-Oder. 

 From time immemorial they claimed the right to fish in the 

 stretch iu the Oder from Furstenberg to Garz. In 1510 when 

 Joachim I. was Elector of Brandenburg, he was induced by the 

 Bishop of Lebus, through fear of the Church, to give the Bishop's 

 people a sole fishing right iu the Oder from the Garz-Castrin 

 boundary to the Frankfort-Lebus boundary. The Frankforters 

 protested and in 1511 went to law with the Lebusers, and in one 

 hundred and eighty-sis years, or on June 24, 1697, obtained a 

 decision, their children and their children's children inheriting 

 the claiin after the fashion of a Kentucky feud. The decision 

 was fought down the centuries, imtil 1911 when the Supreme 

 Court of Germany decided in favour of the anglers of the Lebus. 

 This is the proverbial angler's patience. 



If the angler finds himself in the Belgium and Luxemburg 

 Ardennes, there are trout to be had. Salmon are taken at 

 Eemonchamps, and at AywaUle and Angleur, not far from Li^ge. 

 In the Pyrenees, Mr. Charles A. Payton, a distinguished British 

 angler and member of the British Sea Anglers Society, stated that 

 the Pan district, the streams of Yeaux, Chaudes, and Gabas, the 

 lac d'Aule, above Gabas, and Louvie abound in trout. Grood 

 fishing is to be had not far from Cologne at Kyllburg in the 

 Eifel, trout, grayling and chub being the game to expect. 



Some very large trout are taken in Chiem Lake, near Eosen- 

 heim, Bavaria. One particularly I recall, taken by J. A. Koosen,, 

 was three feet six inches long, and weighed over thirty pounds. 

 This was the biggest trout that did not get away, so the veracity 

 of anglers is sometimes preserved inviolate. 

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