278 THE TROUT ARE RISING 
Scotland, Wales or Ireland, years ago: yet here 
you are overseas, experiencing the same sensation, 
all the eager, boyish delight, once more ; and, when 
you have caught your first trout in your adopted 
Colony or Dominion, you will verily feel you have 
“caught your first trout again!” The youthful 
joy comes back in its freshness. You are a boy 
again! ‘The trout is examined, and looked at, 
and looked at again. The old appealing details are 
there, though the setting is so different. -You 
will enjoy the incident all the more if you feel 
you are part and parcel of your adopted new 
country. You will feel that it is good to have 
trout fishing in your néw home. You will realize 
happily that more triumphs may await you. You 
will say that trout fishing is so good for your 
health, as indeed it is. Some might give greater 
honour to the first salmon, the first mahseer, or 
the first tarpon, but to me the capture of the first 
trout in a British Dominion seems the second big 
occasion ; the landing of the very first trout in 
the little stream at home, in boyhood’s days, 
must always remain the first. That is why I say 
you may catch your first trout again when you 
are overseas. 
Well do I remember my “first trout again,” 
I had gone down from Johannesburg to the 
River Umgeni in Natal. The spot to be fished 
was remote from the railway—Dargle Road was 
the nearest station—and from the farmhouse 
where I was staying nobody fished, at the time. 
I was given directions how to get to the river. 
