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down the inlet into one of the Rearing Ponds from the Ohakki River ; water 

 in which wiseacres have assured me trout would never lie. 



Four hen fish were netted on July 2nd and July 3rd for autopsy and 

 " scale reading " as follows : — 



Reach. Length. Girth. Weight.* 



(z) Vr lOi" 6i" 11-3 oz.* 



{ii) VII 12i" 7i" 17 oz.* 



(m) Below Reach VII at 



Sultanpur . . . . 15" 10" 30-9 oz.* 



(iv) Ditto . . 12" 8" 19-5 oz.* 



The biggest fish had an empty stomach. No iv had recently swallowed 

 a large snail 2^ inches long, in the stomachs of the others were found 

 Caddis larvce: Caddis "pupce: Stonefly wings, ephemerid flies : beetle larvie. 

 One had swallowed a glittering piece of mica f an inch long — a hint to 

 spoon fishers. None of them had eaten any barbel fry though the river was 

 full of them. All were caught in heavy water. 



So much for the experiment : I have shown I hope that the fish are in the 

 Beas awaiting the return of normal times when soldier men may have time 

 to fish for them, and that all the natural conditions are in favour of the 

 stock increasing. Other people are breeding trout in other parts of the 

 Himalaya. It goes without saying that I shall always be glad to exchange 

 ideas with them, and I shall perhaps get at them better through these pages 

 than through those of blue books which wise men read only under compul- 

 sion. This must be my excuse for the inordinate length of this paper. 



* These fish weig-h about 25 per cent, more than average Eng-lish fish of the 

 same length. This is due no doubt to the plentiful feed in the Beas, and to the 

 torrential character of much of it's course, which secures oxygenation at all points. 



