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abounds in trout and grayling, and runs through some 

 very fine scenery. 



The members at present consist of eighteen gentlemen, 

 thus showing a vacancy for two more rods. 



Bradford-on-Avon Fishing Association. 



This Association was formed about ten years ago with 

 the object of putting a stop to the poaching, netting and 

 pollution which was then going on in the Avon. The 

 principal supporters of it were W. Stevine, Esq., of 

 Warleigh, the Rev. George Baker, of Manor House, 

 Freshford, and Captain Sainsbury, of Bathford. It pre- 

 serves the river from Holt to Stoke, which distance is 

 divided into three sections. The charge for a yearly 

 ticket for the whole of the water is ^i, and such ticket is 

 transferable to any member of the owner's family. For 

 half the water the cost of a ticket is ioj., and for one of 

 the sections it is 2s. 6d. per month. In 1876 the water was 

 handed over to an association formed at Bristol, of which 

 Mr. E. W. B. Villiers, of 26 Bath Road, Bristol, is secretary. 



Boston Angling Association 



Was established in 1871, having for its object the pre- 

 vention of the wholesale destruction, by netting, of fish in 

 the river Witham and its tributary streams, so that good 

 angling might be provided for the inhabitants of Boston, 

 its visitors, and the neighbourhood. This object the Asso- 

 ciation has undoubtedly attained, and is now one of the 

 largest and best free fisheries for coarse fish in the kingdom, 

 being bountifully supplied with pike, perch, roach, rudd, 

 chub, ruffe, bleak, bream (two kinds), tench and eels. 

 Burbot are occasionally taken. It is 148 miles in extent, 

 comprising the river Witham, and the drains in the East, 



