CHAPTER XXVI. 

 FISHING LOCALITIES. 



" I am, Sir, a brother of the angle." 



IZAAK WALTON. 



IN my first edition, I wrote : " This appendix is necessarily a mere 

 skeleton, because it is unavoidably the result of only one individual's 

 knowledge, and public officers in India have not leisure and express 

 trains in all directions to aid them in exploring different fishing 

 localities. In full knowledge, however, of its meagreness, it is, never- 

 theless, introduced more as a provocation than anything else, for 

 other fishermen to throw together their local knowledge, and perhaps 

 some day make up a useful compilation like ' The Angler's Diary.' " 

 And recently I sought the aid of the Asian, the editor of which was 

 good enough to support my request to anglers most cordially. Kindly 

 have anglers responded, some in its columns, some direct to myself. 

 I must commence this chapter, therefore, with acknowledgments, 

 especially to " Doon," and the editor of the Asian, and I would 

 mention others, but that I am not quite sure that I am free to publish 

 names. With the kind permission of the editor of the Field, I have 

 gleaned also in those pages. The list of fishing localities, though much 

 amplified by these means, is doubtless capable of being more than 

 doubled in so vast a continent as India, and if anglers will continue 

 to help, and my book lives to a third edition, they shall find the 

 advantage of it in an ampler record of localities. I shall be glad, 

 too, to be set right wherever I have made any errors in spelling, etc., 

 through want of local knowledge. 



The best maps that a stranger can buy for his guidance as to where- 

 abouts are the Government Survey Maps, always procurable at very 

 cheap rates from the offices of the Surveyor-General of India, at 



