92 THE SCIENCE OF DRY FLY FISHING. 



safe, directly in the bye-path of some portion of the best 

 trout stream available. As an instance in point, I can refer 

 to The Itchen Trout Breeding Establishment, in Hampshire. 



Some years ago Mr. E. V. Corrie, one of the keenest 

 of fishermen, conceived the idea of placing his breeding 

 pounds directly in the flow of the Itchen river at Lower 

 Chilland, Itchen Abbas. 



With the exception of the hatcheries themselves, in 

 which spring water is used, all the troughs, boxes, pounds, 

 etc., are directly treated to a plentiful supply of river water ; 

 the fry, i.e., the young trout immediately after passing out 

 of the alevin or yoke-sac period, are brought up directly in 

 the life-bearing and cool waters of the Itchen, and the 

 consequence is that, both as yearlings, as two year old fish 

 and onwards, the size and healthiness of all the trout are 

 phenomenal. 



In order to illustrate the natural conditions of these 

 remarkable breeding pounds, I have been able, by the kindness 

 and courtesy of the present owner, Mr. G. R. Bryant, of 

 Lower Chilland, to show my readers in Plates XIX., XX., 

 and XXL, the succession of these pounds as they occur in 

 the bed of the stream. Jf 



Plate XIX. shows the upper pound in which the stock 

 fish (from three to five pounds) are kept. The river 

 is here screened off and so controlled by hatches that 

 the entire flow of the river Itchin (here a considerable stream) 

 can be poured through the stock pounds. These screens 



