THE TROUT 



try to lure from those lovely streams the much-fished- 

 for and wonderfully wary trout who dwell therein. 

 On enquiry he will discover that the number of 

 tickets now sought for the open waters is largely in 

 excess of that for which demand was made but a few 

 years since. So it is in the North ; and, in fact, turn 

 to whatever part of England you will, if trout be 

 found there, and reasonable facilities for preserving 

 the rivers be afforded, you may be sure that end- 

 less applications to buy or rent those streams will be 

 made. 



In truth, the owner of a good trout river, should 

 he be no fisherman himself and then I should 

 sincerely pity him has now a safe and certain 

 source of income ; indeed, should he be the fortu- 

 nate possessor of a part of one of the favourite 

 southern streams, he can ask and obtain a price for his 

 fishing which but a few years since it would have 

 been considered an act of lunacy to mention. One 

 may be fairly asked why this sudden demand for 

 trout fishing should have taken place, and why the 

 followers of old Isaac's craft should have all at once 

 become so numerous ? In the North there have 

 always been many more anglers than in the South ; 

 more literature on the subject of trout fishing has ap- 

 peared there than elsewhere, and therefore it is with 



