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these waters have never yet been to use a word 

 much in vogue exploited, as they might be, pertina- 

 ciously, with equipment specially fitted for them, and 

 a scientific and systematic management of the sport. 



Around most of the stately homes of England 

 are the lovely estates which, preserved with little 

 alteration for hundreds of years, present glorious 

 park scenery the like of which cannot be found in 

 any other part of the world, and to these the 

 traveller, wherever he may roam, turns affectionate 

 memories, longing always to return to them. Woods 

 are there, and, as a contrast, will generally be found 

 a sheet of water, varying from the rank of a pond 

 to areas of hundreds of acres in extent. No one 

 has ever yet written a book dealing exclusively with 

 these adornments to British scenery. They are often 

 unknown beyond a circumscribed neighbourhood. 

 The angler, however, knows them well, and wherever 

 their virtues are discovered no little part of the duty 

 of the land agent is the granting or refusing permis- 

 sion to fish. 



In addition to these strictly private waters are 

 others of a more public character. The best known, 

 perhaps, are the famous Broads of East Anglia. 

 Time was when these were available without much 

 trouble to the visiting angler, but one of the results 



