THE GREAT LAKE TROUT. 
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Feet. Inches. 
‘ Girth , between eye and mouth 
. 1 
H 
back of gills 
1 
6* 
middle, just in front of dorsal fin 
. 1 
9f 
setting on of tail . 
8 
Length, extreme from hook to tail 
. 3 
2| 
head from hook to back of gill 
10 
tip of nose to front of dorsal fin . 
. 1 
H 
front of dorsal to front of caudal 
n| 
tail 
5f 
— — mouth . 
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Weight 23 lbs. It was lank, though the flesh was firm, and had evidently 
milted.” 
Salmo ferox. Feb. 10 th, 1838. — Mr. Adams remarked to me, that in 
October it is an extraordinary sight to see the large Buddaghs on the 
spawning beds in the river Maine ; from the first bridge for some distance 
up the river he has seen them so close together with the tail and fins 
above the surface of the water when it was low, that one could apparently 
walk across dry upon the fish ; the number is extraordinary. He thinks 
all the large fishes keep to this part of the river contiguous to the mouth, 
but he has heard of the smaller ones ascending to spawn as high up as 
Broughshane. On inquiring how he knew they were not salmon, he 
replied that their season was later than the Buddaghs. 
Salmo ferox. August 1 5th, 1845. — I saw in Belfast market the finest 
male fish of this species, i. e. of the greatest depth relatively to length, I 
ever saw : it was from Lough Neagh, was in length 27 inches, girth 161- 
inches, weight 16 lbs. 
Swift, vol. xix. p. 144, old ed. of 20 vols. Lady Howth to Dr. Swift, 
August 6th, 1736. — 
“ Since I began this there came in a trout ; it was so large we had it weighed; 
it was a yard and four inches long, 23 inches round ; his jaw-bone 8 inches long ; 
and he weighed 35f lbs. My Lord and I stood by to see it measured.” 
“ Swift does not give the locality ; somewhere in Connaught evidently, 
and the address given for him to write is Turlevaghan near Tuam.” E. G. 
Salmo ferox. Ballochmorrie, Sept. 1843. — Mr. Wason has seen taken 
of large size in Loch Lomond, and states that it is found in Bala lake in 
Wales : he describes it admirably, so that I feel certain of his correctness, 
and to my surprise mentioned that it is there called Buddagh ; he had 
never heard of the same fish, or indeed any species, being called Buddagh 
in Ireland. 
Salmo ferox. — I saw two of these with Surgeon Wilde, from Lough 
Allen. — Dublin, Nov. 1839. 
Salmo ferox. August 31s£, 1848.— I saw two males from Lough Neagh 
in Belfast market, one of which was 23 lbs. and the other 28 lbs. weight. 
The latter was no longer than a fish of less than half the weight, but as 
it lay on the board was about one foot in depth. 
Lough Neagh Trout. 
Mag , 1851. — I think I have before noted that Mr. B. Meenan has seen 
trout from this lake 33 lbs. weight, and that Sir William Verner told him 
he caught one there of 36 lbs. 
June 29 th. — I saw a male Salmo ferox, about 6 lbs. weight, with Mr. 
Wilde, from Lough Mask. It was considered a Gillaroo by him, and its 
