CHAPTER IX 
FISH PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCURSIONS 
OccasIONALLY photographs of fish life can be procured 
which do not entail much trouble or expenditure of 
time. This, however, is a very exceptional occurrence, 
and in consequence, with the individual whose time is 
not his own, fish photography on an extensive scale 
can only be undertaken during a holiday. 
Ten years ago I went for my first fish photographic 
excursion to the Norfolk Broads in order to study 
and photograph bream, roach, rudd, carp, and perch. 
I availed myself of a long-standing invitation to stay 
at a quiet country rectory. On my arrival at a way- 
side station on the Great Hastern Railway I was met 
by the whole family, and the gardener’s boy with the 
wheelbarrow for my luggage. My friends had not 
realised that fish photography entailed a certain amount 
of paraphernalia, and expressed their surprise at the 
amount of my kit. Certainly it did make a somewhat 
imposing heap as it was turned out on to the platform. 
Successful fish photography, however, is impossible 
without a fair amount of apparatus. Mine consisted 
of two glass tanks, a flat wooden tank for storing fish, 
two wooden trestles, four eleven-inch boards (each six feet 
in length), two fish cans, a rod box, a trunk containing 
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