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give is needful to ensure success in the northern 

 waters, otherwise days are lost in fishing places 

 where no fish are to be found. Early in the 

 season the deep pools below the falls and rapids 

 are the best ; as the summer advances, the fish get 

 strength and take to, the strongest streams ; and 

 as autumn comes on, the heaviest fish lie just 

 above the largest falls and rapids. It requires 

 some nerve as well as skill to fish in these places. 

 Two men, with a pair of sculls each, is requisite, 

 and great care must be taken not to get drawn too 

 near the falls, as in that case nothing can save 

 one." 



The charr which we usually took in the fell 

 lakes was just the common charr (8. alpinus, Lin.), 

 but they vary much in colour, and we have two 

 distinct varieties, in the one of which the flesh 

 was pale, and in the other red. The red ones are 

 found in the higher fell lakes, and the higher the 

 lake the redder and handsomer are the charr. 

 But they say that the charr are never found on 

 the very fells themselves, nor higher up than the 

 birch region, which has its highest range 2000 

 feet under the limits of perpetual snow. The 

 common trout (at least that variety which is 

 called the & punctatus, Cuv.), however, has a 

 higher range — in fact, goes further up into the 

 fell waters than any European fish. I never saw 



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