AND HOW I HAVE CAUGHT MY FISH 305 



Yes, my guest was the late Thomas Spreckley, so 

 long the president of the T. A. P. S. 



I am pleased to write these few words, in my 

 poor book, of his work for anglers. I am thinking, 

 and it's so, no doubt, that the good he did by his 

 deeds of charity to needy folk is written of else- 

 where. 



In continuing our journey down we shall pass 

 Shepperton, Halliford, and Walton. At each of 

 these places trees, bushes, gates and other land- 

 marks, have been requisitioned to aid me in fixing 

 my poles in the exact spot necessary for the suc- 

 cessful fishing of each pitch. Let it be a shallow, 

 a deep, a straight run, or an eddy, its depth and 

 the nature of its undercrust are as well known to 

 me as the particular fish which they are most likely 

 to produce. Yes ! no doubt, down stream would 

 be easy and pleasant for me to write about, but, 

 before I decide to go down, let me just think a 

 moment or two of the many profitable days that 

 I have spent between the beautiful banks of the 

 up-stream reaches. 



In the meantime let us return toj Walton that 

 I may tell you of the Deeps and the famous bream 

 that have their home there. 



BREAM. 



Bream must be sought for in still, quiet eddies 

 or in slowly flowing deeps, as they are armed with 



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