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has always iDeeii most liberal in his gifts of trout ova 

 to aid all general and public purposes, and, to my own 

 knowledge, very many thousands of trout ova have 

 been taken yearly away from his fishery at Car- 

 shalton, which alogether comprises, perhaps, half 

 or three-quarters of a mile, or so, of the Wandle. 

 Yet the fish have scarce ever been so abundant in 

 Mr. Gurney's water as during the past two seasons, 

 and the last one in particular was especially produc- 

 tive, and this too, in spite of the very large number 

 of fishermen who are permitted to fish in his water. 

 Again,^M. T. Smith, Esq., M.P., had command over 

 a very nice stretch of water upon the Test. For 

 three years, to my knowledge, he has allowed any 

 quantity of ova we could get, to be taken from the 

 stream, and his liberality was freely made use of, and 

 large quantities of ova were, taken ; yet was Mr. Smith 

 able to send some 200 brace of fish away to stock 

 other water during the earlier part of last season; 

 and, in spite of this, so great still was the quantity of 

 trout left, that when we were netting it we often 

 had forty or fifty trout in the net at the same time. 

 In fact, there was no stretch of water on the Test 

 that had such a large supply as this, although it 

 was always assiduously fished by many skUful rods. 

 I could cite several other instances of a similar 



