Salmon Trout.-This species has a phosphoric property, which distinguishes it from many other. Dr. Block says, he saw one evening a light accruing from the head of a salmon-trout; its eyes, tongue, palate, and fins, spread a very great light, which much increased when it was touched with the finger, and which conveyed to another part of the trout the same phosphoric appearance.

About forty years ago a trout was caught in the Thames, near Hampton, which measured two feet nine inches. Hansard's Trout Fishing.

Trout of a particular species are taken in Ulleswater, to the weight of thirty pounds, also eels of a large size, and guiniads in large quan

tities.

They are said to weigh thirty pounds in the lakes of Cumberland,—a salmon was taken in the river Kennel that measured forty-five inches, and one was taken of late years at Hampton that measured thirty-nine inches. Donovan, p. 85.

Gillaroo Trout.-The peculiarity of this trout is, that its stomach very much resembles the gizzard of a bird gillaroo (being the name for a gizzard), where in most of the loughs in Ireland these fish are to be found.

Gent. Mag. xliv. 530.

Lord George Cavendish ordered the river that runs through his park, at Latimer, in Bucks, to be drawn off in 1776, and drew from it five hundred brace of trout, weighing, on an average, one pound each.

Trout Fishing in Scotland. - Last week the game-keeper at Haughton killed, with a rod and line, in the Don, a common river trout, which weighed eleven pounds, and measured in girth seventeen inches, the largest trout probably ever caught in the river.

Aberdeen Journal, Sept. 1833.

There is a fine trout stream, river Ython, near Ellan, where a small inn is kept by Mrs. Cowie, whose son is an excellent fisher, who will give every information; the writer appears to have had most delightful sport, one trout twenty-one inches long; this village is only sixteen miles from Aberdeen; the water belongs to Lord Aberdeen, but his agent, Mr. Blachie, is very obliging in readily granting permission to those who apply to him.

Fly Fishing Ballater. -This delightful place, on the banks of the Don, is the favourite resort of the Aberdonians; it is about forty miles from Aberdeen, near which Byron spent some of his youthful days. During the months of June, July, and August, it is the resort of the

gentry; and crowded with visitors, laying in a new stock of health amid the mountain breezes. Lodgings in the village are in very great request; the quantity of finnoch and salmon killed there in the season by fly-fishing is very great.

New Sporting Mag. July.

The New Sporting Magazine for July, 1834, observes that a Dr. Robertson, supposed to be one of the best fishers in the county, took, in August, 1833, at Ballater, in one day, (in a small loch, and adjoining the stream,) thirty-six dozen of trout, and a friend killed, on the same day, twenty-five dozen; these were all about the size of a herring, the trout will seldom exceed this size in the small mountain streams.

Dr. Davy remarked, in one of his lectures at the Royal Institution, that those trout were the best which frequent waters flowing over calcareous soil,―he accounted for this matter on philosophical principles, and the truth of his theory is fully confirmed by the superiority of Irish trout, the beds of many of the rivers consisting entirely of limestone.

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Mr. Pakenham let his fishery at Ballyshannon for twelve hundred pounds per year; in 1808, fish was as high as fourteen pence per pound. Lough Erne trout increase in size so wonderfully,

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that some young ones, which were caught and marked, were supposed to have increased one pound per week. Sup. Daniel's Sports.

Extraordinary Circumstance.-A gentleman lately bought at a fishmonger's in Perth, a few pounds of small sized trout, in cleaning which, the servant discovered in one of them, a hard substance, which turned out to be the whole of a teat of a cow: the trout was of the yellow kind, and measured only fourteen inches in length. Scotchman, Sept. 1833.

It is not an uncommon circumstance for persons residing in the country, to place trout in their wells; they find them very useful in destroying insects, and keeping the water pure. About eight years ago a trout three inches in length, was put into a well at Delnashaugh, and it is now fully eighteen inches in length, and so tame that it will eat out of the hand of any person that will hold out food for it.-Elgin Courier.

Trout Lakes of Inchiquin.-The trout in these lakes are very fine, and of two kinds, red and white; the latter, when hooked, will often spring a great height out of the water. One trout killed here was unusually thick, deep, silvery, and bore the colour and shape of a salmon; it weighed ten pounds and a half. Angler in Ireland,

In fly-fishing for large white trout (Sewin) in Ireland, the angler should use good strong gut for the bottom, for the trout are very strong, and yield noble sport, and may be known on being hooked; they immediately leap out of the water. It is very necessary to wind up hastily, and retreat quickly backwards, for they are apt to run towards you, and if once allowed a slack line, they most likely get away.—Hansard's Trout Fishing.

Mr. Johnson, who is the principal inhabitant of St. Mary's Falls, Columbia River, informed us that fish was in great abundance there, particularly trout, of the enormous size of sixty pounds. He also assured me he saw one caught in Lake Superior, which weighed ninety pounds.

Cox's Columbia River, vol. ii. p. 265.

To preserve trout alive whilst carrying them a long distance, mix one ounce of white sugar candy, a piece of saltpetre, about the size of a walnut, and a table spoonful of flour together; this will be sufficient for a pail of spring water, and must be often repeated to keep the fish alive.

Mayer's Sportsman's Directory.

The best way to dress a trout is by plain boiling, the very day it is caught, with sauce composed of catsup, cavice, and boiled anchovies.

New Monthly Mag. 1820.