184 MAKING A FISHERY. 



the hole, I took up my position below in the 

 water, just where it commenced to shoal, and 

 the men dragging the net slowly drew it round 

 towards the landing bank. A number of 

 grayling, disturbed by the motion of the men 

 and the net, were heading down stream, but 

 by splashing about in the water I contrived 

 to turn them, with the result that seventeen 

 very good grayling, from fib. to i-jlb. were 

 secured. All told, the day's netting produced 

 thirty-eight grayling, besides two pike, one 

 chub, one roach, and two dace. 



The grayling were put into the fish carriers 

 and conveyed as rapidly as possible to their 

 destination. Grayling are far more difficult to 

 transport than trout, and the day being warm, 

 frequent additions of fresh water were necessary 

 en route. Only five succumbed, and the 

 remaining thirty-three were turned into a mill 

 pond at the lower end of the water. After the 

 weeds had been cut two more days' netting in 

 the same portion of the river yielded 147 

 grayling, of which 145, averaging nearly lib. in 

 weight, were safely transferred, part to the same 

 mill pond and the remainder to a broad shallow 

 at the extreme lower end of the water. Thus 

 178 adult grayling and 135 two-year-olds were 

 introduced into this part of the Kennet, and 

 what the result might be — whether they would 



