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drainage and other causes) be supplemented by the 

 introduction by vigorous two-year-old and larger 

 trout, wild fish in preference, especially where the 

 high rents tenants pay can only be kept up by good 

 sport, beneficial results will be likely to follow. But 

 trout bred from ova, and daily fed by keepers on 

 boiled and minced horseflesh, &c., while held in 

 capitivity for a year or two before they are turned 

 into a river to forage for themselves, are likely enough 

 to become weaklings, and they will often be white 

 fleshed. 



Among some of the altered aspects of trout fish- 

 ing during recent years other than with the fly-rod, 

 many fishermen who spin will have noticed that 

 artificial lures, such as small spoon baits, Devon 

 minnows, halcyon spinners, horn phantoms, et Jioc 

 yenus omne, have come more into use, and natural 

 baits, alive or dead less than formerly, except per- 

 haps on the Thames, and some northern rivers, or 

 where the really artistic method of " swimming the 

 worm " is increasingly practised. But certainly 

 where fly-fishing is concerned the use of the natural 

 ephemera or trichoptera and of lepidopterous insects 

 is more than ever tabooed on most rivers and on a few 

 lakes Wet-fly experts have al- o taken a lesson from 

 their brethren of the dry-fly cult, and present their 

 lure up-steam, allowing it to sink as it flows down in 

 front of fish in view, or if not in view over their 



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