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in the end of October, will sometimes, after a 

 great flood, furnish a good day's sport, and, 

 if the net fishers could be set aside, several 

 days' sport. I have known two salmon, one 

 above 20 lbs., taken here in a day ; and I 

 have taken myself fine sea trout, or sewe?is, — 

 which, in an autumnal flood in Wales, are 

 found in most of the streams near the sea. 



PoiET. — I have heard a Northumberland 

 man boast of the rivers of that county, as 

 afFordinfr ffood salmon fishino^. 



Hal. — I have no doubt that salmon are 

 sometimes caught in the Tyne, the Coquet, 

 and the Till ; but, in the present state of these 

 rivers, this is a rare occurrence. I was once, 

 for a week, on a good run of the North Tyne ; 

 I fished sometimes, but I never saw a salmon 

 rise ; and the only place in this river, where, 

 from my own knowledge, I can assert salmon 

 have been caught with the artificial fly, was 

 at Mounsey, very high up the river. There, 

 in ] 820, two grilses were caught, in the end 

 of Aujjust. I have recorded this as a sort of 

 historical occurrence ; and I dare say most of 

 the counties of England, in which there are 



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