CHAR FISHING Potted char are things that haven't come my
way. Nor have I as yet caught a char, the red-bellied, handsome fish of Windermere and at least one of the Welsh lakes. They can be caught on a fly, but most are taken by other means in the deeps, I think. Research has been going on into the habits of char which, I am not surprised to learn, have a well- developed 'homing' instinct and, like trout, make great efforts to get back to their natural habitat if they are moved from it. A friend with whom I regularly correspond tells me that the char fishers of Windermere are finding some excuse for their failure to take the elusive fish in the presence of more motorboats on the lake. Char are not easily come by at the best of times, and even in the old days, when potted char were to be had in London restaurants,
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not every helping could be guaranteed to Windermere char. A proportion, large or smal the much commoner Windermere perch helped it The char is not a myth, however, as one frost' Windermere visitor is reported to have sugge It is, by accounts, a fine-flavoured fish and fit 1 gourmet's table. In the deeps it knows the dan worm as well as the fool at the other end of the
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