Issue 66 - A Dangerous Place
One can easily acquire mixed feelings about the Lake District. The dark and turbulent beauty of the fells, the tranquillity of the flat valley floors are not in question. To an angler, the quantity of water would suggest a trove of fishing and certainly there are many glacial lakes, interconnected with rivers, and draining into them becks and gills off the mountains. Finding the best places to fish is a problem but much worse is the deterioration of the great lakes, where enrichment and sedimentation have impacted the fly fishing for trout and threatened rare species like the vendace in Bassenthwaite, where this strange fish is now believed extinct, though it survives on in Derwent Water.
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