130 A WORD TO ANGLERS IN HOT WEATHER 



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Trout are now in prime condition, and no prettier 

 present can be offered than a brace of silvery beauties 

 A word t fr es kty caught. But too often they are 

 Anglers in allowed to lose all their freshness before 

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the basket or bag with grass or other herbage, thinking 

 thereby to protect the fish from the heat. It is useless 

 worse, it is mischievous, for half-withered grass is apt 

 to impart an evil flavour, and it discolours lustrous 

 scales. Let each trout as it is caught be wrapped 

 promptly in paper good newspaper will do which 

 excludes heated air better than anything else. Then, 

 at the close of the day, unroll your spoil, and each 

 trout will be found bright and stiff, fit to set before 

 the daintiest lady in the land. This wrinkle will prove 

 of special service when you get that six-pounder, which 

 you intend, of course, to have stuffed as a trophy. You 

 will be able to send it to the preserver without those 

 blotches and streaks of discoloration which, being 

 indelible, render hand-painting necessary. But for 

 the love of all that is gracious, do not leave scraps 

 of newspaper lying on the river bank ! for of all objects 

 in a summer landscape, none are more obscene than 

 these, and there are places where even the Athenaeum 

 or the Church Times are an eyesore. 



