takeable. I am aware that the Trent Conservancy Board, who are supposed to conserve the main river and its tributaries, are, or ought to be, very strict in their enforcement of the law as to the close time for trout from and after October 2nd; but my own experience, and that of the other anglers whom I have met here, is that that date is unnecessarily early. All the trout taken by us were in perfect condition, and if the close time for trout had been October 15th instead of October 2nd, I am sure that I should have had a different story to tell. I suppose it may be taken for granted that trout in the same river do not all spawn at the same time-some are early, some late, and some barren. Of course, it is at all times a thrilling and pleasant sensation to have a struggle with a big trout, even when he rises to your grayling fly, and the grayling are sulking on the bottom, but one's pleasure is just a little modified by the pain one cannot avoid inflicting on the trout in extracting the hook, and the grief one cannot help feeling in parting with him by consigning him to his native element instead of to one's bag.

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