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the Secretary of the Thames Angling Preservation Society, 

 in the summer. He gave the following captures as repre- 

 senting one week's Thames trouting between Chertsey Weir 

 and Kingston only : — Chertsey Weir, four fish, weighing 

 respectively /fibs., 4 lbs. 14 oz., 5 lbs., and S^lbs. ; Shep- 

 perton Weir, four fish, weighing respectively 5^ lbs., 4^ lbs., 

 3f lbs., and 2 lbs. ; Sunbury Weir, two fish, weighing 

 respectively 7 lbs., and 4^ lbs. ; opposite the Waterworks 

 Sunbury, one fish weighing 10 lbs. ; Hampton Court Weir 

 four fish, weighing respectively 14 lbs. 10 oz., 7 lbs., 4 lbs., 

 and 2 lbs. ; Thames Ditton, one fish, weighing 7 lbs. 2 oz. ; 

 Kingston, one fish, weighing 7 lbs. Thus we have a total 

 of seventeen fish, weighing together 99 lbs. 14 oz. 



The coarse fish have also been kind enough to furnish 

 me with ready examples of the quality of our English 

 sport. Mr. Jardine, who is accepted as the most successful 

 pike angler of the country, as the superb specimens shown 

 by him in the western arcade at the Fisheries Exhibition 

 will indicate, is thus spoken of in a newspaper para- 

 graph : — " Messrs. A. Jardine and Knechtli had a magni- 

 ficent catch of pike the other day, which were shown at 

 the Gresham Angling Society. Ten fish weighed in the 

 society's scales 135 lbs. This represented two days' 

 fishing. This capture has no parallel in angling history, 

 so far as London clubs are concerned, because the fish 

 shown were only the largest, and they took thirty more, 

 from 3 lbs. to 7 lbs." 



In BelTs Life of January 7, 1883, I read — "We have 

 seen or heard of some remarkable takes of pike and perch 

 recently. One of the finest shows of pike to be seen this 

 season was that of Mr. H. D. Hughes, jun., last Saturday. 

 Fishing with his brother in a private lake, the united take 

 was forty good fish. The largest, weighing 25 lbs., was 



