CHAPTER XV 



SOME NOTES ON SALMON AND TROUT 

 FISHING IN NORTH WALES 



BY R. B. MARSTON 



WHEN SAINT ANTHONY HAD DONE PREACHING TO THE 

 FISHES 



" The Pikes went on stealing, 

 The eels went on eeling, 

 The crabs were backsliders, 

 The stock fish thick siders, 

 Much delighted were they, 

 But went on their own way." 



(As I have already said, circumstances prevented my 

 having even a day's fishing to my great disappointment. 

 I have with his permission availed myself of my son's 

 description of what he did in the way of fishing on this 

 Welsh excursion. He did but little, for no one has com- 

 mand of wind and weather; but what he did he describes 

 in a very practical way and he throws out some hints 

 which may prove of use to many anglers. E. M.) 



HAT a pity it is that Welsh anglers 

 do not appear to appreciate the 

 fact that in the lovely rivers and 

 lakes of their delightful country 

 they have what ought to be, and what might 

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