CHAPTER IX 



FISH PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCURSIONS 



OCCASIONALLY photographs of fish life can be procured 

 which do not entail much trouble or expenditure of 

 time. This, however, is a very exceptional occurrence, 

 and in consequence, with the individual whose time is 

 not his own, fish photography on an extensive scale 

 can only be undertaken during a holiday. 



Ten years ago I went for my first fish photographic 

 excursion to the Norfolk Broads in order to study 

 and photograph bream, roach, rudd, carp, and perch. 

 I availed myself of a long-standing invitation to stay 

 at a quiet country rectory. On my arrival at a way- 

 side station on the Great Eastern Railway I was met 

 by the whole family, and the gardener's boy with the 

 wheelbarrow for my luggage. My friends had not 

 realised that fish photography entailed a certain amount 

 of paraphernalia, and expressed their surprise at the 

 amount of my kit. Certainly it did make a somewhat 

 imposing heap as it was turned out on to the platform. 

 Successful fish photography, however, is impossible 

 without a fair amount of apparatus. Mine consisted 

 of two glass tanks, a flat wooden tank for storing fish, 

 two wooden trestles, four eleven-inch boards (each six feet 

 in length), two fish cans, a rod box, a trunk containing 



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