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I may add that my statement was met by 

 some doubters. I waited patiently, and 

 soon had the corroborative evidence of 

 several good anglers : for instance, Mr. 

 William Fawcett (a member of the Horn- 

 castle Angling Association) wrote thus to 

 the Fishing Gazette: " Fishing in one of 

 the chalk streams in the North of this 

 County, in July last ('86), I caught a well- 

 fed, handsome trout, of about f of a Ib. 

 weight. On taking my fly out of its 

 mouth, I was surprised to see the throat 

 and mouth full of small round, but flat 

 seeds," etc. 



Another correspondent kindly directed 

 my attention to the scientific side of the 

 question, thus : " In ' London's Encyclo- 

 paedia of Plants ' he especially names as 

 very greedily eaten by geese, ducks, and 

 fish, especially trout, the seeds of the follow- 

 ing plants. ' Name, Glyceria : Natural coun- 

 try, Britain : Locality, ponds : ' (signed) 

 Kobert Boots, Hon. Secy., Portsmouth 

 Waltonians." 



Before I close this chapter on " River 

 fishing with the wet fly," I should like to 

 say a few words more. 



I have attempted to condense into a few 

 pages, not only the experiences, but the 



