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of stocking, although the first cost is much heavier 

 than that of yearlings. 



Two-year-old fish are better able to hold their own 

 against pike, which frequently play havoc amongst 

 yearlings. 



The trout should be monarch of all he surveys. 

 All coarse fish should therefore, wherever possible, be 

 made to give place to him. Although roach and dace 

 do not cause direct loss except to the ova, their room 

 is decidedly more valuable than their company in 

 trout water. They consume very large quantities of 

 natural food which the trout would otherwise get, and 

 generally I have no hesitation in advising the removal 

 of all coarse fish even where their presence does not 

 seem to do harm. 



Two-year-olds require deeper water than yearlings, 

 and if put in very shallow parts of the stream they 

 tend to work downwards. As a general rule, however, 

 and especially where the water is free from pike, 

 yearlings easily take the palm for stocking purposes. 

 Well-grown yearlings can, for the most part, be trusted 

 to hold their own against perch ; they are excellent 

 travellers, and they readily become acclimatised to new 

 water. 



The cost of purchasing or breeding them is small 

 when compared with the cost of older fish. The 



