"When I was young, Cleveland was famous as the place where the lake caught fire," he said, referring to oily trash on the polluted Cuyahoga River that burned in 1969.
When he finally does so, a hand comes from the lake, "caught it and so shoke it thryse and braundysshed / and than vanysshed awaye the hande wyth the swerde in the water".
Overall, Bitter Lake catches the west's terrible arrogance, the casual projection of foreign dreams and ideals on to a distant country and the readiness to walk away when it all starts going wrong – leaving the people our governments were experimenting with to fight their way out of the mess.
We assume that convergence between the protocols indicates that volume-weighting provides a more accurate estimate of whole-lake catch rate and community composition.
During the '90s, when his homely yet psychedelic paintings of buildings and boats drifting on lakes caught the attention of dealers and critics, Doig's canvases were thickly encrusted with paint – he once said that he wanted to make their surfaces "slightly repellent".
Later we drove to the top of the gorges, climbed three hours up to the Capitelio and Melo lakes, caught a half dozen brook trout (North American salvelinus fontinalis curiously stocked there some 30 years ago) and then headed for the coast at Alria, stopping to fish a late afternoon hatch of caddis flies in the Tavignano gorges just above the Genoan bridge at Altiani.
Compared with skis, snowshoes are easier to use if your hands and thoughts are occupied — whether you're a bird-watcher with trail guide and binoculars, a camper lugging a pack and breaking trail, or an ice fisherman towing sled and tackle to a nearby lake to catch trout.
There are walking and mountain bike trails through bushland near the village and the State Park, and houseboat hire is available for those seeking the opportunity to explore the lake and catch fish.
Bluegill Lepomis machrochirus, crappie Pomoxis spp., and largemouth bass were caught most frequently across the lakes, but catch rates varied considerably by lake.
Walk, kayak, swim with ducks in lakes and catch minnows in tide pools.
The evening we camped on Manitou Lake, Molly caught two five-pound lake trout after a half hour of trolling.
