FEBRUARY 37 



means London, that we must look for 

 well-informed example. 



That is why I have endeavoured to 

 suggest that there is more joy to be 

 found in fly-fishing than the conventions 

 of Hampshire permit. It may seem 

 paradoxical to argue that the race of 

 trout will be preserved and strengthened 

 if the means of catching more of them 

 are adopted ; but there is many a truth 

 in the guise of paradox. One, I think, 

 is that in Hampshire and elsewhere there 

 would be more trout, and eventually 

 larger trout, if on all possible occasions 

 every fisherman filled his basket to the 

 lid with trout of "takeable" size. He 

 could not do this without having first 

 acquired a minute acquaintance with the 

 ways of the fish and of the great variety 

 of insects on which they feed. To glean 

 the full delight which a trout-stream is 

 capable of yielding will be well worth the 

 effort through which the knowledge is to 

 be obtained. It will render indolence by 

 the waterside impossible, and apply a 



