FISHING
Towards the end of our trip on the River Thames, we stayed two days at Streatley.
The area of Streatley and Goring is a great place for fishing. The river is filled with pike, roach, dace, gudgeon, and eels; and you can sit and fish them all day.
Some people do. They never catch them. I never knew anybody catch anything up the Thames, except minnows and dead cats, but that has nothing to do with fishing! The local fishermen's guide doesn't say anything about catching anything. All that the guide say is that is a good place for fishing and from what I saw of the place, I must agree.
I am not a good fisherman myself. I devoted a lot of time to fishing and was doing fairly well; but the expert fisherman told me to give up. They said I was a good thrower and that I seemed to have enough enthusiasm and that I seemed to be lazy enough. But they were sure that I would never a really good fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination.
