FISHING IN THE STREET.
A curious sight in the city of "Winchester is angling for trout in the public streets. • ' Winchester is on.the River Itchen, and into the main stream there run numerous small tributaries. The water of these brooks is exceptionally clear, and trout, often of a good size, abound. In the main thoroughfares of tho city the brooks, which run along by the edge of the roads, aro mostly covered in. In order to allow surface water to (low away gratings arc arranged at. intervals, and it is through these that cunningly-bailed lines', are cast, and a good trout often captured. Now and again a fish' may get away with hook and line • and swim rapidly down stream Then the fisherman mokes' a wild dash along the bank until, sooner or later, the flowing water conies more definitely into the open, and there occurs an opportunity to retrieve tho lost lino and hook, and perhaps secure tho fish &s well
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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