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favour of an Association, he must secure a daily, 
weekly, monthly, or season ticket. There are, of 
course, Associations and clubs to which admission 
is not to be had for love ‘or money, or in which 
vacancies only occur at intervals. ‘To get into the 
best fishing clubs nowadays I fancy an infant 
ought to have his name put on the books the 
day he is born! He should at any rate make 
an early point of asking his father to look into 
the matter and use foresight ! 
Water-bailiffs are employed both by Boards 
of Conservators, and by Angling Associations, 
with waters to protect. Thus if you are on 
Association water, within the jurisdiction also 
of a Board of Conservators, you are liable to a 
two-fold visit, one from the Association’s keeper, 
who will courteously ask if you have the 
Association ticket, and if not why not, and so 
forth, with the climax, “ Will you please give me 
your name and address, sir?” and the other 
from the Conservancy bailiff, with his, “ Will 
you kindly show me your licence, sir ?” 
It is no good explaining, when you have not 
the vital document, that you are only on a day’s 
visit and that you already have a licence for the 
river, not far away. He will explain, 
with precise geographical detail, that the river on 
which you are now fishing—caught red-handed— 
is not a tributary of the ———— ; that it comes 
within the jurisdiction of the ———— Board of 
Conservators, which is “an entirely separate 
body,”—these words are uttered in solemn, 
