CH. XXXII 
FISHING 
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is known of the fishing, except that the fish are there, 
and will afford excellent sport to the man who knows 
something of the game. 
Most important of all is the fact that the prospects 
of successfully acclimatising trout in the high altitude 
cool streams are most encouraging. They are already 
doing well in the few streams in the Aberdare moun¬ 
tains into which they have been introduced, and the 
fish rise freely to a fly and have already been caught 
weighing as much as 6^ lb. Fishing in these streams 
is at present prohibited until they are thoroughly 
stocked, and it is intended during the next eighteen 
months to stock all the cold, clear streams flowing 
from Mount Kenia, and, if possible, any other 
streams in the country which may prove to be suitable. 
If these experiments are successful, and there is now 
little doubt that they will ultimately be so, the trout 
fishing in British East Africa will be some of the best 
obtainable in the world. The lucky angler will find 
himself camped among the most delightful surround¬ 
ings. Semi-tropical and Alpine vegetation mingle in 
wonderful variety and luxuriance, and will delight him 
if he is also a botanist; vast areas of cedar, juniper, 
and podocarpus forests, and undulating ridges of giant 
heather and open moorland, intersected by numerous 
rushing mountain streams, clear as crystal and cold 
as ice, flowing from the wonderful equatorial snows. 
The zoologist angler also will find much that will 
delight him and send the blood tingling through his 
veins, for in British East Africa it will not be a case 
of “ here and there a trout, and here and there a 
grayling,” but “ here and there a trout and here and 
there a rhinoceros or an elephant or a buffalo,” and 
the sportsman will be able to combine a fishing ex- 
