Q16 



I have been all my life too fond of fishing, 

 which has been sometimes to my disadvantage, 

 but I loved the scenes of woods, green hills, 

 of singing birds, meadows, and fresh air, 

 rushing rivers, and above all, to look at the 

 beautiful fish jumping to catch the fly on the 

 surface of the water. 



BAIT FISHING. 



THE KIVEK THAMES. 



After jumping over old '* tower 'd" Thames 

 on our way to the south, we now return to him 

 to wind up this little chapter on rivers ; there 

 cannot be a better river for the purposes of 

 trolling, spinning, or bait fishing in general, 

 than the Thames, there is not a town on 

 its banks from Eichmond to Oxford, that does 

 not afford capital angling with the bait, and in 

 many places large trout may be caught with 

 the fly in the evening, these large trout are 

 very delicious and grow fat on the quantities of 

 minnows and gudgeons which they prey upon, 

 and of which there are an inexhaustible supply. 



