PREFACE. 



T HAVE frequently been pressed to write a book 

 on fish culture, and at the earnest request of 

 many who take a great interest in the subject I 

 undertook the task, and this volume is the result. 

 I trust much information may be found in its pages 

 that will prove useful to many of those who read it. 

 I know what a help such a book would have been 

 to me when I first began to study the subject. 



I have divided it into two parts. In the first 

 four chapters I have made mention of some well- 

 known angling resorts, of the Solway Fishery, and 

 of the progress of fish culture ; and for the second 

 part of the work I have written some thoroughly 

 practical chapters, which are intended to serve as a 

 guide to those who are the fortunate possessors of 

 suitable, water, and which will enable them to develop 

 the resources which have so long lain dormant. 



