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favour of an Association, he must secure a daily, 

 weekly, monthly, or season ticket. There are, of 

 course, Associations and clubs to which admission 

 is not to be had for love or money, or in which 

 vacancies only occur at intervals. To get into the 

 best fishing clubs nowadays I fancy an infant 

 ought to have his name put on the books the 

 day he is born ! He should at any rate make 

 an early point of asking his father to look into 

 the matter and use foresight ! 



Water-bailiffs are employed both by Boards 

 of Conservators, and by Angling Associations, 

 with waters to protect. Thus if you are on 

 Association water, within the jurisdiction also 

 of a Board of Conservators, you are liable to a 

 two-fold visit, one from the Association's keeper, 

 who will courteously ask if you have the 

 Association ticket, and if not why not, and so 

 forth, with the climax, " Will you please give me 

 your name and address, sir ? " and the other 

 from the Conservancy bailiff, with his, " Will 

 you kindly show me your licence, sir ?" 



It is no good explaining, when you have not 

 the vital document, that you are only on a day's 

 visit and that you already have a licence for the 



river, not far away. He will explain, 



with precise geographical detail, that the river on 

 which you are now fishing caught red-handed 

 is not a tributary of the - - ; that it comes 



within the jurisdiction of the Board of 



Conservators, which is " an entirely separate 

 body," these words are uttered in solemn, 



