CHAPTER III. 



MANAGEMENT. 



F the water has been taken by the 

 lessee with the intention of keeping 

 it entirely in his own hands, for his 

 own sport and that of his personal 

 friends exclusively, he should superintend all 

 matters connected with it himself. If it is 

 taken as a commercial speculation, I can offer 

 no advice, having always held that sport and 

 profit cannot be united in one undertaking 

 without one destroying, or at best seriously 

 crippling, the other. If the intention is to 

 make a club, or for two or more friends to carry 

 on the fishery and divide, the expenses among 

 them, their first step should be to select one of 

 their number to superintend the fishery. 



This position is by no means an invidious 

 one, and anyone taking it will find it no sine- 

 cure. He must have leisure to attend to the 

 multifarious duties of the office. He should 



