124 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
appears to have lost for Brown Trout what little attrac- 
tion it ever possessed. The best—or more accurately 
the least bad—artificial bait that I know is one I had 
made a year or two ago with tin, and mother-of-pearl 
on each side, made exactly to imitate a Bleak in size, 
shape, and colour. The spin was given by the tail, 
which was crooked, forming the continuation of the 
centre piece. 
THAMES TROUT-SPINNING. 
Spinning for Thames Trout is probably, judged by 
the standard of difficulty, the highest branch in this de- 
partment of fishing. Amongst. the best localities for 
Thames Trout may be mentioned Weybridge, Sun- 
bury, Penton Hook, the Old Windsor Water, Marlow 
Weir, and some deep pools above Oxford. In the vicinity 
of Weybridge very few fish were killed during the 
last season, though some of the keenest and most suc- 
cessful Trout fishers reside in the neighbourhood, and 
devote much time and patience to the pursuit. I hardly 
know to what to attribute the falling off in the take of 
Thames Trout of late years, notwithstanding the efforts 
made by the Thames Angling Preservation Society for 
increasing the breed and stocking the water. It is 
certain, however, that such a falling off has actually 
taken place, and of the Thames and its quondam 
leviathans, it may now be said, with only too much 
