TROUT 
when fishing in several feet of water in an open river 
swimming-bath, and I have bagged as many as ten brace 
of two pounders in one day from a fast-running brook 
across which one could almost walk dry shod! ‘The two 
largest fresh-water Trout that have passed through my 
hands turned the scale at 8 pounds and 7? pounds 
respectively. ‘These were caught in the River Ivel, 
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near Baldock, Hertfordshire, a few years ago. The 
Trout is very partial to the same haunt, and I know 
intimately many specimens that are always to be seen at a 
certain spot where they have thus remained ever since I 
was a boy. That they attain a ripe old age seems certain. 
Possessed of very quick powers of movement, the Trout 
keeps pretty much to the bed of its environment, and it 
varies in colour even in the same stream. Artificial 
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