210 THE TROUT ARE RISING 



land can be refused. A ten-shilling licence is 

 necessary to " fish for trout in any public stream 

 or waters in the Cape Province." Generally 

 speaking, the artificial fly only is allowed. All the 

 fishing is practically wet-fly so far, though there is 

 no reason why dry-fly should not succeed in certain 

 circumstances. 



It may be urged that South Africa is a country 

 of long distances, i.e. that you have far to go 

 before you get to your fishing. This has, on the 

 whole, to be admitted. But an angler from the 

 United Kingdom or America who visits South 

 Africa on a trout-fishing holiday should have 

 ample time to make even a two-days' railway 

 journey, if he specially wish to reach some spot 

 a long way off. For town-dwellers in South 

 Africa a railway journey or at any rate some sort 

 of journey is generally necessary in order to get 

 trout-fishing. For that matter, the same thing 

 applies almost the world over to town-dwellers. 

 But fishermen can often manage a week-end, 

 especially if a National or a Bank Holiday is 

 included in it. Many times have two or three 

 of us had fishing trips from Johannesburg. We 

 have been to the Klip river at Meyerton and to 

 the Vaal at Vereeniging, though in neither river 

 at present do there seem to be any trout, only 

 yellow fish, which, however, give quite good 

 sport. Trout were distributed in the Klip river 

 at Wittkopjes, near Meyerton, but they did not 

 flourish. This river joins the Vaal at Vereeniging, 

 on the Transvaal-Orange Free State borders. 



