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Government with a better understanding for the common good of 

 those rights that it ought to watch over, and that the restocking 

 of the rivers of France will soon be accomplished when we at 

 last adopt a new legislation. 



It is no easy matter to give visitors any information of good 

 trout streams like those so easily obtained in other European 



countries. The interior of Brittany alone might offer 



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^ . , some chances 01 success, hea-hshmo- is excellent alone 



Tourists. <^ ^ 



the coast, and the best headquarters for anglers would 

 be Ouimperle, Pont Scorff, and Pont Aven. It is possible to get a 

 little sport in Normandy, but such rivers as still hold many fish are 

 rented and preserved. 



In nearly every river in France there are pike, perch, chub, roach, 

 dace, gudgeon, and, in the rivers of the south-east, grayling, as well 

 as trout. 



The flies used for salmon in French waters are of much darker 

 hue than those used in England and Norway, and are more like 

 those made in Ireland and appreciated on the Blackwater. Our 

 trout flies are very like those used in England, 



This must conclude my remarks on angling in France, as sad, 

 I fear, as those I had to make on the subject of our shooting. I have 



given some indication of the causes of this depletion 



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^ , . 01 land and water, as well as the very smipJe means 



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of combating it. It is not in France that foreigners 

 will find the opportunity for much shooting. It is well known that 

 a prefet in the south once authorised the shooting of swallows for 

 want of game ! These same sportsmen of the south are also said. 



