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appears to have lost for Brozvn Trout what little attrac- 

 tion it ever possessed. The best — or more accurately 

 the least bad — artificial bait that I know is one I had 

 made a year or two ago with tin, and mother-of-pearl 

 on each side, made e:x:actly to imitate a Bleak in size, 

 shape, and colour. The spin was given by the tail, 

 which was crooked, forming the continuation of the 

 centre piece. 



Thames Trout-Spinning. 



Spinning for Thames Trout is probably, judged by 

 the standard of difficulty, the highest branch in this de- 

 partment of fishing. Amongst the best localities for 

 Thames Trout may be mentioned Weybridge, Sun- 

 bury, Penton Hook, the Old Windsor Water, Marlow 

 Weir, and some deep pools above Oxford. In the vicinity 

 of Weybridge very few fish were killed during the 

 last season, though some of the keenest and most suc- 

 cessful Trout fishers reside in the neighbourhood, and 

 devote much time and patience to the pursuit. I hardly 

 know to what to attribute the falling off in the take of 

 Thames Trout of late years, notwithstanding the efforts 

 made by the Thames Angling Preservation Society for 

 increasing the breed and stocking the water. It is 

 certain, however, that such a falling off has actually 

 taken place, and of the Thames and its quondam 

 leviathans, it may now be said, with only too much 



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