THE THAMES ANGLER. 



25 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF THE DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS OF FISH, AND THE MANNER 



OF ANGLING FOR EACH. 



" With hurried steps 

 The anxious angler paces ou, uor looks aside, 

 Lest some brother of the angle, ere he arrive, 

 Possess his favourite swim." 



THE TROUT. 



This splendid fish is the object of every true angler's ambition, 

 and, in the Thames, fortunate indeed is he who, after a week's 

 continual spinning, succeeds in making one of these beautiful 





TUK TROUT. 



specimens of the finny tribe his own — decidedly handsomer in 

 this river than any other in England ; where, I am glad to 

 say, they are generally thought to be on the increase, owing 



