PIKE, PERCH, BREAM, AND ROACH 139 



at any rate, for with a rush out goes the line, 

 not into the rush of the sluice this time. 

 Wind up, turn his head on to the current, 

 and drown him if you can. This movement 

 on your part is objected to, and you have 

 the pleasure of seeing your fish, springing 

 clear from the water, turn on its side a sure 

 sign that you can begin to take liberties with 

 it. Down with your rod ! You can trust 

 your tackle and bring your fish in, and land 

 him by judicious hand-over-hand hauling. In 

 the present age, when the most ordinary mat- 

 ters are conducted on strictly scientific prin- 

 ciples, this method will probably be despised 

 as too simple by a certain class of modern 

 anglers, who will think it a mere boy's way 

 of fishing for pike in a sluice-pool. Well, the 

 plan is extremely simple, childishly simple in 

 fact, but it has often proved very successful. 

 Costly tackle will not ensure that you will 

 catch any fish. Although I do not fish now, 

 some who remember me when I did still do 

 a little that way, will from time to time send 

 me a good fish they have caught, to paint 

 from. I have recently had the pleasure of 

 painting a perch that weighed, fresh from the 

 water, one pound and three-quarters, and for 



