148 ON SURREY HILLS. 



CHAPTER V. 



WAYS AND WHIMS OF FRESH-WATER FISHES. 



Some authorities on matters pertaining to angling 

 would have us believe that the fish are more wide- 

 awake than they us.ed to be, and that tackle on 

 finer and more scientific principles, with far more 

 elaborate baiting, is now required. This is certainly- 

 made to perfection ; and yet there is something far 

 more necessary to success than all this, and that is 

 a knowledge of the haunts and the habits of the 

 fish angled for. As a rule, fish are very much like 

 "humans" in having varying ways of living and of 

 behaving themselves in different localities. What 

 will serve the angler in one county, or even in one 

 part of the same county, will be quite useless in 

 another. 



