152 FISHING RIVERS. 



In regard to trout-fishing, the new Bill should provide 

 for this also. That there should be a close time for them 

 is much to be desired. Few people care for fishing for 

 these after October, as they are decidedly out of season 

 till March. But if there were no fishing, say from Novem- 

 ber to March, as is the case in Ireland ; also, to have a 

 license for salmon-fishing ; for trout, it would be the 

 means of preserving many a salmon, and many a redd, 

 as poachers would then be known who go now to the 

 river under pretence of fishing for trout, when it is all 

 the while to exercise their calling for salmon 



4 He came for draff, but drink was his errand.' 



MI'RRAT AXU fiir.I!, PRINTERS. EDLXBUBGII. 



