Angling sketches . - serene. LOCh-FISJILXO 79 Trout, in lochs which ha\c become accustomedto feeding on minnows, arc apt to disdain ?iyaltogether. Of course there arc lochs in whichgood trout coexist with minnows and with pike,but these inmates arc too dangerous to be intro-duced. The introduction, too, of Loch Levcn. LOCH-STOCKIXO trout is often disappointing. Sometimes theyescape down the burn into the river in floods ;sometimes, perhaps for lack of proper food andsufficient, they dwindle terribh in size, and be-come no better than brownies. In St. MarysLoch, in Selkirkshire, some Canadian t
Angling sketches . - serene. LOCh-FISJILXO 79 Trout, in lochs which ha\c become accustomedto feeding on minnows, arc apt to disdain ?iyaltogether. Of course there arc lochs in whichgood trout coexist with minnows and with pike,but these inmates arc too dangerous to be intro-duced. The introduction, too, of Loch Levcn. LOCH-STOCKIXO trout is often disappointing. Sometimes theyescape down the burn into the river in floods ;sometimes, perhaps for lack of proper food andsufficient, they dwindle terribh in size, and be-come no better than brownies. In St. MarysLoch, in Selkirkshire, some Canadian trout were 8o AXGLIXG SKETCHES introduced. Little or nothing has been seen ofthem, unless some small creatures of a quarter ofa pound, extraordinarily silvery, and more oftenin the air than in the water when hooked, arethese children of the remote \^est. If they grewup, and retained their beaut\- and sprightliness,they would be excellent substitutes for all experiments in stocking lochs ha\-etheir perils, except the simple experiment ofputting trout where there were no trout can do no harm, and thc\- ma}- increase inweight, let us hope not in wisdom, like thecuriously hea\y and sh\- fish mentioned in thebeginning of this paper.
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