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most popular. The late Mr. Lachlan Maclean 
was apparently the first active mover in trout 
acclimatization in the “Old Colony.” He did 
great good in this respect and he was. always very 
willing to give information to inquirers. He 
helped me much as a journalist, and our acquaint- 
ance, started on the introduction of Mr. Senior in 
1901, was always a happy one. 
The nearest trout river to Cape Town is the 
Eerste (Dutch for “ first”). This stream, which 
is not big, runs through Stellenbosch, joining the 
sea near Somerset Strand. The wet fly is always 
used here, good patterns being March brown with 
silver body, cow dung, small Jock Scott and small 
Silver Doctor. The Eerste holds both rainbows 
and brown trout of good average size. Stellen- 
bosch is roughly thirty miles from Cape Town 
and can be easily reached by train. There are 
trout also in the Laurens River which runs from 
Somerset West to the sea. The Brede, flowing 
through Michell’s Pass (Ares district), holds many 
trout, though the season of 1919-1920 was not 
so good as its predecessor, The Hex River, 
Worcester district, is another good trout stream. 
The flies mentioned should serve in all these 
streams. I should also mention the Berg River, 
from which in 1918 Mr. J. McKenzie, of Meer- 
lust, caught a fine trout on a small black gnat 
(No. 14, Limerick scale), a brown trout 244 ins, 
long, 15 ins. in girth, and weighing 7 lb. 9 oz. 
an hour and a half after being landed. Generally, 
for trout fishing in the Western Division of the 
