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remain in the water or not, whether they would 

 work up the stream or down, whether they 

 would rise at fly and give sport, or whether they 

 would neglect surface food and live on shrimps, 

 caddis, and other forms of animal life in 

 mid-water or on the bottom, and be voted a 

 nuisance by future generations of anglers on the 

 Upper Kennet — these are matters of conjec- 

 ture which it is hoped the future will satisfac- 

 torily elucidate. 



In the autumn of 1893, when netting the Grayling 

 ... ,. . working up- 



river for pike, two grayling were taken in a stream. 



hatch hole at the top of the small stream, where 

 the Andrews two-year-olds had been turned in. 

 They were, of course, returned uninjured to the 

 water, and when netting the same hatch hole 

 for a second time three days later, the same 

 two grayling were again taken and returned. 

 This hatch hole is, as measured on the Ord- 

 nance map, about 500 yards above the place 

 where the two-year-olds were turned in. Here 

 again they had worked up-stream. 



When netting the upper part of the same 

 water in the autumn of 1893, tne keeper re- 

 ported that he took and duly returned a 

 grayling about -g-lb., at a point some consider- 

 able distance above, and where a fish working 

 up from below would have to pass several 

 obstacles. In the following autumn of 1894 



