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fisheries, from Whitchurch and Overton in 

 Hants, also from Grodalming and Wycombe, 

 The young fish, both French and English^ 

 have been turned into the Thames at Sutton, 

 Hampton, Sunbury, Walton, HaUiford, and 

 Staines ; we hope that as they grow older 

 they will prove to have " biting " powers. 



Anglers will know what a difficult matter 

 it is to catch a Thames trout. They are 

 generally heavy fish,* and the few fish that 

 remain in the river require masters of the 

 art of angling to entice them to "a run." 

 The haunt of a big trout in the Thames is 

 immediately marked hke the haunt of the 

 finest stag in a deer forest, and there is as 



* I now show a life-size water-oolour drawing of a liuge 

 trout in magnificent condition, the property of that most 

 successful ti'out-fisherman, my friend J. Gould, Esq., F.E.S. 

 A trout of 15 lb, has heen caught this week at Sunhury. 



