CHAPTER III. 



CARP CULTURE. 



HE carp is the queen of rivers ; a 

 stately, a good, and a very subtil 

 fish," says Izaak Walton, and none 

 of these grave utterances may 

 be gainsaid. " Stately, good, and 

 subtil," indeed, is the carp j and especially 

 does he deserve the latter epithet, as all who 

 have fished for him will agree. 



No fish requires greater patience on the part 



of the angler. Shyness, intelligence, and 



caprice are the very essence of the carp's 



nature, and no fish poet has failed to notice the 



carp's intelligence. 



" Of all the fish that swim the watery mead, 

 Not one in cunning can the carp exceed," 



is an expression of opinion quoted by Daniel in 



