24 ANGLING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



pastoral rivers of the Hampshire lowlands (the Itchen and 

 the Test) and the mountain burns of Wales and Scotland. 



The Derbyshire streams, being for the most part open to 

 the purchasers of day tickets, are a good deal fished, but 

 there are plenty of respectable trout and grayling yet to be 

 taken, and the anglers of the big cities — London in the 

 south, and Manchester and Liverpool in the north — have 

 in them splendid opportunities of exercising the art of fly- 

 fishing from spring, to the close of the grayling season, when 

 spring comes again. The Derwent, Wye, and the Dove 

 rising in the mountains that characterise the peak country, 

 are tributaries of the Trent, from which a few salmon are 

 taken, and which affords everlasting sport to the Notting- 

 ham anglers, who have founded a school of their own, and 

 whose reserves of coarse fish seem to be little affected by 

 the contributions levied upon them. A kindred river to 

 the Trent, though running in a southerly instead of a 

 northerly direction, and delivering its tribute, like the 

 Trent, into the H umber, is the Yorkshire Ouse, into which, 

 galloping down from the Pennine chain, are delivered a 

 succession of first-rate trout and grayling streams, the 

 Swale, the Yore, the Nid, and the Wharfe ; and on the 

 other side, easily commanded from Scarborough, and in 

 its earlier waters running under the north wolds, is the 

 Yorkshire Derwent, the grayling fishing of which is not 

 inferior to that of the Wharfe. 



Lancashire, in days long since passed, was probably an 

 excellent angling county throughout, but the Mersey and 

 the Irwell have been years ago pressed into the service of 

 manufacture and commerce, and we have to go into north 

 Lancashire to the Ribble, Lunc, llodder, and the waters 

 of Ribblesdale, before anything like adecjuale sport can be 

 obtained. The lakes of Cumberland, and its fine river the 



