Big Trout
While many fishermen are lamenting the decay of streams, especially some of those about which Izaak Walton wrote most ardently and charmingly, others have been taking trout of an almost unrecorded size. A six-pounder or more was caught not long since on the fly, though not the dry fly, on a Hertfordshire lake ; and the angler felt so sure that no one would believe his gargantuan tale that he hurried to have the fish preserved by a local artist who had achieved some fame in the stuffing of terrestrial animals. His first effort at a fish has secured the desired result. The size, especially the girth of the monster, will convince any doubter. The artistic excellence of the trophy is of little account. Several trout of over four pounds have been recently caught in the neighbourhood of the Afforestation Commissioners' great undertakings along the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk.
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