Minnows
In most of the lakes I visit there are tremendous numbers of minno0 and in one in particular they are so numerous at the moment that
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blacken the water of every little bight and bay, and have fl room to move until the shoal itself moves. They seem to keep I° size, minnows of about an inch in length congregating apart 1101 those of an inch and a half upwards, I stood watching a 00°, among the weeds of a feeder stream, and, when I moved, my shado4 fell across the water putting panic into them. They collided, oll made the surface break in tiny splashes that glistened in the light' Whatever they feed upon in such circumstances must be plent0 or, as I am more inclined to think, the shoal is ravenous at all tines With all the expanse of the lake behind them, they crowd the shell; for out in the deep water the big trout lie, and their main diet belt to be minnow, so infrequently do they rise to a fly. The birds that °, round the lake at the moment are not those that live on minnow Neither the sandpiper nor the dipper has a taste for them, and tho wagtail is far too dainty to take fish.
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