adult lake dwelling brown trout (Sulmo /ru//u L.) were tagged with ultrasonic transmitters and tracked almost continuously for up to 13 days. Two behaviour types were observed: (a) random movement in locally restricted areas and (b) excursions of up to 40 km distance. Swimming activity during the day was significantly higher than at night in most experiments. In summer swimming depth ranged between 8 and 16 m, and in winter between 0 and 3 m. The preferred water temperature was about 14" C in the thermally stratified waterbody. During the experiments mean swimming speed ranged between 0.3 km h ' (0.1 bodylengths s I) and 0.9 km h-l(O.6 bodylengths s I).