CHAPTER I. 



SELECTION. 



HE Angler in search of water has 

 generally little choice, and hence, 

 although it is undoubtedly useful 

 to lay down the salient points which should 

 guide him in his selection, yet, unfortunately, 

 he has but seldom the chance of con- 

 sidering them fully. He answers a certain 

 number of advertisements, each of which sets 

 forth that good trout fishing is to be let with or 

 without (generally with) a large and expensive 

 house and grounds. Before many letters have 

 passed between him and the agents he finds, 

 as a rule, that the fishing is either of small 

 extent, in a river of poor reputation, hampered 

 by inconvenient, if not impossible conditions, or 

 that the proposition is to let it only from year 

 to year, at as high a rental as possible, while 

 the proprietor himself is to have a concurrent 

 right, and to do nothing whatever to improve 

 or stock the water. Granted, however, that a 



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Choice of 

 water limited. 



