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We will choose the latter route ; we shall have 

 no trouble in .getting over. There is always a 

 sluice-gate open through which I drop my punt 

 with every care ; professional fishermen so easily 

 manage the task as to take away all thoughts of 

 danger. 



Now we are ready to fish this peaceful by-way 

 into which the two great enemies to anglers- 

 boats and launches seldom enter and which, from 

 its inaccessibility, is comparatively little fished. 



We will first moor our boat close up to the 

 weir sluice so that we can fish where the stream 

 and eddy meet. We will try for one of the proud 

 old trout for which the weir and the scours 

 immediately below it are said to be noted. 

 



THAMES TROUT. 



Of late years so many varieties of trout have 

 been placed in the Thames that there is a possi- 

 bility of getting one now and then with a fly, 

 but if you desire to catch a Thames trout proper 

 you must use one of two methods ; either spin a 

 bait, artificial or natural, or pay down to them a 

 live-bait. 



The latter style is the one more in vogue 

 although in no way so fascinating as the older 

 method of spinning. Unfortunately, the number 

 of those who spin has grown less and less until 

 they are so few that it is quite rare to find, even 



