MAY. 



A 



THAMES TROUT FISHING. 



BY E. T. SACHS. 



SINCE the salmon, beaten back by the foul matter which meets 

 him already some distance out to sea, no longer exhibits his 

 handsome proportions in the Thames, the Trout is the undoubted 

 king of the river. Scientists very properly decline to recognize in 

 the Thames Trout anything but salino fario ; but anglers, accus- 

 tomed to detect minute differences in shape and coloration, will 

 speak of a fish as being a typical Thames Trout. It being an 

 undoubted fact that fish partake largely of the particular locality 

 which they frequent, small wonder need there be that the Thames 

 Trout, living always where the stream runs swift and clear, and 

 often amidst the swirl and turmoil of the waters that, having 

 swept with irresistible rush over a weir, buffet awhile with the 

 rocks below, should possess the bright silvery side which is one of 

 the tokens by which the angler knows him. Small wonder, again, 

 need there be, seeing that he lives in a well-stocked larder in 

 which innumerable bleak, dace, and gudgeon jostle one another, 

 that he should also be remarkable for an astonishing depth of 

 body, which makes him, for his length, the heaviest Trout in the 

 world. In saying which I do not except those wonderful fish of 



