44 An Anglers Paradise. 
upon a knowledge of locality, and above all, of practical fish 
culture of the most advanced type, to enable any individual, or 
committee of individuals, to deal with them in a satisfactory 
manner. 
Take the case of Windermere for instance, and we, have 
fronting us at once: the salmon fishery, the char fishery, the trout 
fishery, and the coarse fish, including eels. In these matters 
alone we find ample work for a local committee. That great 
improvements can be made there is no doubt, and I, for one, long 
to see the work well in hand, for a more hopeful case can hardly 
be. There is the raw material to work upon in almost unlimited 
quantity, and what a boon it would be, not only to the inhabitants 
of the district, but to the crowds of visitors who go there to spend 
their holidays, if the waters of this lovely country were really well 
stocked with fish. 
Most of the rivers and becks of the district are very rapid 
streams, with essentially stony bottoms, and the water beautifully 
clear and transparent, whilst some are browned by the peat, 
amongst which they have their origin. Some, I regret to say, are 
poisoned by the foul matter sent down from mines or manu- 
factories. The unpolluted streams are, in very many cases, 
exceedingly adaptable, and the development of such as these is a 
work of no mean kind. Many a beck, that now produces nothing 
but the finest water and a few small trout, may be made a driving 
power for scores of miniature lakes which would be controllable. 
This is exactly what some of the natural waters are not, although 
they too are capable of much improvement. 
The char fishery is well worth developing, although the fish 
are not, perhaps, the most desirable from an angler’s point of view. 
Their flavour, however, is so excellent, and they are such 
delicacies, that they might probably be made to pay for a part, at 
least, of the cost of developing the fisheries as a whole. It has 
been asserted that they will only live in deep lakes. True it is, 
that in such only they are usually found to occur, but in 
experimenting with these fish, I have reared them from the egg, 
up to a weight of three pounds, in a small concrete tank not 
exceeding three feet in depth. 
Char are exceedingly sensible to changes of temperature, and 
