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fishing excursion, I have often thought how welcome these 

 shoals of despised coarse fish would be if transported to 

 some of the depleted waters fished by London and other 

 coarse fish anglers. Our worthy and much-respected 

 chairman, Mr. Spreckley, President of the Thames Angling 

 Preservation Society, and the other officers of that society, 

 have done a grand work of this kind by netting the reser- 

 voirs of the water companies along the Thames and other 

 waters, and turning their stores of fish into the Thames. 



Having described the methods in which coarse fish 

 culture may be carried on, I will now, with your permission, 

 give a brief general account of the natural conditions under 

 which some of these fish breed to give a complete list 

 would occupy too much time. In coarse fish culture the 

 more closely we follow the conditions laid down by nature, 

 the more likely are we to meet with success. Being fully 

 aware of the scantiness of our knowledge respecting the 

 breeding of many of our coarse fish, I wish to disclaim any 

 pretension to complete accuracy in what I state respecting 

 this matter. I have got my information, such as it is, partly 

 from personal observation, and partly from foreign works 

 which refer to the subject. 



SPAWNING TIMES OF COARSE FISH. 



Nature of places they choose , and time it requires the young to 

 hatch out. 



The Pike spawns in February and March ; the eggs, 

 which are small, hatch in from fourteen to twenty-one days, 

 and are deposited on mud, rushes, sedges, and other water 

 plants in shallow quiet bays and ditches. The parent fish 

 usually go in pairs. 



