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fisheries, from Whitchurch and Overton in 

 Hants, also from Godalming and Wycombe. 

 The young fish, both French and English, 

 have been turned into the Thames at Sutton, 

 Hampton, Sunbury, Walton, Halliford, and 

 Staines ; we hope that as they grow older 

 they will prove to have " biting " powers. 



Anglers will know what a difficult matter 

 it is to catch a Thames trout. They are 

 generally heavy fish,* and the few fish that 

 remain in the river require masters of the 

 art of angling to entice them to " a run." 

 The haunt of a big trout in the Thames is 

 immediately marked like the haunt of the 

 finest stag in a deer forest, and there is as 



* I now show a life-size water-colour drawing of a huge 

 trout in magnificent condition, the property of that most 

 successful ti'out-fisherman, my fi'iend J. Gould, Esq., F.R.S. 

 A trout of 15 lb. has been caught this week at Sunbury. 



