PREFACE, 
I HAVE frequently been pressed to write a book on fish 
culture, and at the earnest request of many who 
take a great interest in the subject I undertook the task, 
and this volume is the result. I trust much information 
may be found in its pages that will prove useful to many 
of those who read it. I know what a help such a book 
would have been to me when I first began to study the 
subject. 
I have divided it into two parts. In the first four 
chapters I have made mention of some well-known 
angling resorts, of the Solway Fishery, and of the pro- 
gress of fish culture; and for the second part of the work 
I have written some thoroughly practical chapters, which 
are intended to serve as a guide to those who are the 
fortunate possessors of suitable water, and which will 
enable them to develop the resources which have so long 
lain dormant. 
