ARE TROUT CUNNING? Ill 



asking, or at small charge, have but a 

 casual interest in the sport. 



In England trout-streams are rare, and 

 trout lakes rarer ; and the waters are in 

 most cases private. In England a day's 

 fishing is either a costly luxury or a great 

 privilege. In the South it is no uncommon 

 thing for a club of twenty-five men to 

 pay £1250 yearly for the right of fishing 

 in two or three miles of stream. Con- 

 siderations of that kind stimulate the 

 imagination, and English anglers set them- 

 selves to become as proficient as possible 

 in the craft of the sport. They may 

 still be far short of the complete science 

 or the perfect art ; but they try to be 

 expert in both. In Scotland quite a 

 different attitude is the rule. Almost 

 any one there can have a day's fishing, or 

 a week's, if he wishes to, and has time to 

 spare ; but he does not make the best 

 possible use of his privilege. He seems 

 to regard angling as an amusement in 

 which to pass the time pleasantly, rather 

 than as a craft to be closely studied. 



