210 THE TROUT ARE RISING 
land can be refused. A ten-shilling licence is 
necessary to “ fish for trout in any public stream 
or waters in the Cape Province.” Generally 
speaking, the artificial fly only is allowed. All the 
fishing is practically wet-fly so far, though there is 
no reason why dry-fly should not succeed in certain 
circumstances. 
It may be urged that South Africa is a country 
_of long distances, ie. that you have far to go 
before you get to your fishing. This has, on the 
whole, to be admitted. But an angler from the 
United Kingdom or America who visits South 
Africa on a trout-fishing holiday should have 
ample time to make even a two-days’ railway 
journey, if he specially wish to reach some spot 
a long way off. For town-dwellers in South 
Africa a railway journey—or at any rate some sort 
of journey—is generally necessary in order to get 
trout-fishing. For that matter, the same thing 
applies almost the world over to town-dwellers. 
But fishermen can often manage a week-end, 
especially if a National or a Bank Holiday is 
included in it. Many times have two or three 
of us had fishing trips from Johannesburg. We 
have been to the Klip river at Meyerton and to 
the Vaal at Vereeniging, though in neither river 
at present do there seem to be any trout, only 
yellow fish, which, however, give quite good 
sport. ‘Trout were distributed in the Klip river 
at Wittkopjes, near Meyerton, but they did not 
flourish. This river joins the Vaal at Vereeniging, 
on the Transvaal-Orange Free State borders, 
