GENERAL MANAGEMENT 337 



Successful fishery management may, in fact, be 

 summed up as an intelligent appreciation of a few 

 leading points which must ever be kept prominently 

 before the minds of both master or manager and 

 keepers. Over and above the points previously 

 referred to in this chapter, the general features of the 

 work to be done may be classified under three 

 headings : (i) Keeping down the enemies of the 

 trout, (2) the cultivation of suitable weeds in the 

 river, and (3) stocking. These questions will be 

 treated in full detail in the three subsequent chapters 

 of this book. 



Whether the fishery is leased by an angler for his 



own and his friends' sport, or 

 Rules and regulations, whether it is fished by a 



number of men as a club or 

 subscription water, it is necessary to have a set of 

 rules properly drawn up. Preferably these rules should 

 be printed on cards issued to friends or to each 

 member of a club or subscription water, as it is not 

 fair on any sportsman to leave him in doubt as to 

 what the practice is on the water he is fishing. 



I do not suggest a cut-and-dried formula, because 

 conditions are not identical on all rivers or even all 

 parts of the same river, and everyone has his own 

 ideas of the ethics of the sport. I, therefore, propose 

 setting out the points to be considered, and what, 

 from my own experience of the Test, Itchen, and 

 other south-country chalk-streams, should be the 

 provisos applicable to each branch of the subject. 



