. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . ke cheese known asqueso dc Bim/os, washed down with the rough red wine ofEioja, cheaper than smallest beer, and most refreshing. In every hamlet hung fishing-nets : every day we sawthe fishermen fixing them, and heard of to us, striving with all the skill we possess, appearednone of these leviathans. Nothing we could do availed tocajole them—that is, assuming their existence. A basketof one to two dozen trout daily, including sundry half-pounders, appeared to be the measure of the riv
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . ke cheese known asqueso dc Bim/os, washed down with the rough red wine ofEioja, cheaper than smallest beer, and most refreshing. In every hamlet hung fishing-nets : every day we sawthe fishermen fixing them, and heard of to us, striving with all the skill we possess, appearednone of these leviathans. Nothing we could do availed tocajole them—that is, assuming their existence. A basketof one to two dozen trout daily, including sundry half-pounders, appeared to be the measure of the riverscapacity, or of our skill. Our best basket in this Province of Santander wastwenty-eight trout, weighing eight and a half pounds, andthe best fish a fine trout of just over the pound. Him wekilled in a deep pool so embedded amidst crags and sodifficult of access, that it may be doubted whetherfeathered fly had ever before flown over its virgin friend rose boldly to a small red palmer: andwithin a few minutes two more, of hardly inferior weight,had joined him in the 183 CHAPTER XV. TROUTING IN THE ASTURIAS AND IN LEON. The wide pastoral province of Leon, with its unexploredwilds of the Vierzo and the Maragateria, and many anothersavage region bordering on the southern slopes of theGalician and Cantabrian highlands, is practically a terraincofiuita to British sportsman and naturalist. Well wouldLeon repay either of these for the enterprise expended onits exploration. Mountain and plain afford shelter forgame—large and small—of all the kinds native to Spain ;while the rivers flowing southwards from the Asturianranges probably afford as good trout-fishing as any in thePeninsula. Our own experiences in Leon were limited, as regardsits fronting capacities, to a mere flymg visit, when wealighted one morning in mid-May, at a wayside station inNorth Leon, tempted to break a monotonous journey bythe trout-like appearance of a stream that, for some dis-tance,
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