CHAPTER IX 



GRAND REVIEW AT SPITHEAD CARISBROOKE FISHING 

 ASSOCIATION ABUNDANCE OF TROUT FAIR SPORT 

 A DELIGHTFUL DAY AND A DELUGE AT NIGHT 



" Complete content the day has brought it 

 He fished for pleasure and he caught it ! " 



H. J. WISE. 



August, 1902. 



I HE Isle of Wight is probably the 

 last place in Great Britain to which 

 an angler on fishing bent would be 

 likely to resort. I went there for 

 other reasons, but being there I was pleased to 

 find on inquiry that there is to be had some 

 very good trout-fishing indeed. 



I was on a visit to Piscator Major at San- 

 down, where he and his family were temporarily 

 residing. Mine was only a week-end visit. On 



