TROUT STREAMS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR—I am delighted to learn that your correspondent "R. K. H " finds Test trout "of pink flesh and very good to eat." I have never seen one of them, but have read and heard much about them, and this is the first time I have known a good word to be said of them. One would really like to know the truth about it.
The Test is the classic dry-fly stream of England; its trout angling is more expensive, more highly prized, than that of any other British water ; one would think its resources in every way were better known than those of any other angling river we have, and yet at the very outset of an inquiry into its alleged angling decadence—always a more or less contro- versial matter, we find those who should know all about the river differing on such a simple matter as the table quality of the fish. I have read more than once that the giant trout of New Zealand are, in general, not worth the cooking, and the fact that the original imported stock were Test fish was offered as sufficient explanation of this. Could you not get someone to send you a few Test trout, Sir, to try for break- fast ? I am sure many of your angling readers could do so and would be delighted to oblige you.—I am, Sir, &c.,
W. F.
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