8 ANGLING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



caught on single gut, and was on view last Monday at 

 Messrs. Alfred and Son's, Moorgate Street. Equally 

 remarkable was another day's sport. Mr. Carter Milburn, 

 fishing last week in private water (a lake), took, between 

 eight and ten o'clock on the morning of Thursday, six pike 

 weighing 20 lbs., 17 lbs., 15 lbs., ii lbs., and 6 lbs. This 

 achievement is all the more remarkable when we know 

 that Mr. Milburn has been for years deprived of his left 

 arm. The business was managed entirely with the snap- 

 tackle." 



Perch exist in such incredible quantities in many British 

 waters, that we might almost pass them by, and take them, 

 like official reports, as read. In the Field of August 25, 

 however, an account appeared of the capture by two anglers, 

 between eleven and five o'clock, in Slapton Ley, of more 

 than 800 fish. This haul was made on a well-known piece 

 of water which may be fished by all comers on payment of 

 a small fee. The accuracy of the statement was questioned, 

 but the evidence of subsequent correspondents confirmed it, 

 one gentleman stating that he and a friend in five hours 

 fishing took 476 perch. 



What may be done amongst roach and barbel was duly 

 set forth in the Paper on Freshwater Fishing read at one of 

 the Exhibition conferences by Mr. Wheeldon. In the short 

 space of five hours on a winter day, he killed, in the Hamp- 

 shire Avon — a notable roach river from Ringwood upwards 

 — 75 lbs. of roach, numbers of which were considerably 

 over a pound in weight. In another portion of his Paper 

 he stated that he and Mr. Smurthwaite not long ago killed 

 three hundredweight of barbel in one day, near Sonning 

 Weir. In the tidal waters of the Thames during this present 

 autumn, takes of dace of 35 lbs., 26 lbs., and 25 lbs. have 

 been registered by the Richmond and Twickenham punts- 



