XI: CONCLUDING REMARKS 



I THINK I have now exhausted my small 

 store of knowledge of brook-fishing. 

 If I have been able to give any useful 

 hints, not perhaps generally known, or if I succeed 

 in enlisting even a few recruits to join issue with 

 the trout of these picturesque little streams, my 

 object will have been accomplished. 



I have earnestly endeavoured to condense the 

 teaching of over thirty years as far as would be 

 commensurate with necessary explanatory matter, 

 sufficient, I trust, to enable the uninitiated to 

 understand the elementary principles of this 

 fascinating art, and to start work for himself. 

 Experience will do the rest. 



Upon the practical value of my hints I am 

 confident that the reader can rely, as I myself 

 am able to do upon the results following their 

 application. 



It only remains to add a few final suggestions. 



HOOKED FISH. Notwithstanding that, as I 

 have said, it paralyses a trout to bring it up 

 against the current with mouth over the surface. 



