142 THE WONDERFUL TROUT 



Dynamite. Saw it done in a Hungarian 

 river once. Disgusting ! Never desire to see 

 it any more. Dastardly ! 



Night-fishing. Done it often. Not keen 

 on it. Cause of bad language. 



Blue-bottle fly. Used to practise this and 

 kill, but gave it up in maturer years. 



Creeper. Ditto. 



Diving minnow. Ditto, and rather liked 

 it. 



Par-tail and minnoiv. There is a phase 

 of thi which is sport, i.e. up-stream fishing 

 with minnow. I am not an adept at it, but can 

 realise that it is ' sport/ No doubt minnow 

 is legitimate ' sport/ and ' par-tail ' is a good 

 bait for getting rid of rubbish, i.e. old big 

 trout, which are cannibals with big teeth and 

 do more harm in a stream than good, and 

 ought to be killed at all seasons, as I think 

 so should old black cocks and even old grey 

 hens and old cock grouse all the year round. 



Long ago, when our own home river was 

 comparatively pure and held many fine trout, 

 we used to go to the river-side armed with 

 all the anglers' complete impedimenta. We 

 had a trace mounted for spinning minnow 



