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 yf 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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