146 AN angler's notes ON DAGENHAM LAKE. 



Shooter's Hill. It seems to me that at Dagenham Hall we have 

 evidence of the continuation of this synclinal beneath the gravel flats 

 of Essex, between Warley and Shooter's Hill. It is at least prob- 

 able, therefore, that before the Thames in its lateral progress south- 

 ward had planed away the original features of the ground, Bagshot 

 outliers may have diversified the surface around Dagenham, where 

 we now see but one unbroken flat of river-gravel. 



AN ANGLER'S NOTES ON DAGENHAM LAKE. 



By JOHN HILLIAR. 



T^ AGENHAM Lake, or the " Gulf," as it is locally called, has long 

 -*-^ been a favourite resort of anglers, and has had a good reputa- 

 tion as a fishery. Twenty years ago it was a quiet, out-of-the-way 

 waterj with many secluded spots where an angler could sit quite 

 hidden among the reeds, and oftentimes take in a few hours a basket 

 of fish heavier than was convenient to carry away. The water is 

 about forty acres in extent, and is fed by the Beam river, two small 

 streams called the Goves, and the adjacent land drainage ; the over- 

 flow and flood water passes away under the river wall, through 

 sluices, into the Thames. 



The following is a list of fishes which I have taken, or know to 

 have been taken, from this water. There are most likely other species 

 that I have not met with or heard of : — 



Common Carp [Cypriniis carpio),—K few very fine specimens, 

 weighing ten to fourteen pounds each. 



Tench i^Tinca vulga?'is). — Small, to one pound each. 



Bream or Carp 'Bream {Abratfiis ^rat/ia). 



White Bream or Bream Flat (A. blicca). 



Hybrid Bream. 



The breams were the most numerous fish in the lake, and speci- 

 mens have been caught there weighing three and four pounds each. 



Roach {Leuciscus i-utilus). — The roach was next in abundance 

 to the breams, generally small ; but some few were caught weighing 

 from one to one and a-quarter pounds. 



Rudd or Red-eye {Leuciscus erythrophthaiina). — Small fish, 

 the heaviest eight to ten ounces. 



Perch {Perca fluviatilus). — Very fine, from one to five pounds. 

 Mr. Pcnnell records one of eight pounds taken in the lake. 



