V SOME RENNET DAYS ^ & o o 



OF all the South-Country streams which I have fished 

 I think my warmest affections are given to the 

 Rennet. This is not so much on account of the sport 

 which it has given me as of the sport which it might 

 some day yield. The Rennet in the first week of June 

 holds one almost breathless with exciting promises, and 

 its trout, in the lower parts, are surely the largest 

 offered for capture by any river that gives the fly-fisher 

 a chance. As yet no Rennet monster has come my 

 way, but the fact that I know by sight several fish 

 verging on ten pounds is enough to keep me expectant 

 every succeeding Mayfly season. To me also it is an 

 attraction that the river is not purely a trout water. 

 Grayling, chub, dace, perch, roach, and pike, all have 

 their fascination, especially when one knows that all run 

 big. I should say that the collector of " specimens " 

 would have a better chance of getting trophies from 

 the Rennet than from any river, except, perhaps, the 

 Hampshire Avon. But he would need patience and 

 luck as well as skill. It is not on every day that the fish 

 can be got to feed. 



I have fished the river for a good many years now 

 without often getting any sport worth mentioning, but 

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