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the notice of some men who were at work in the 

 marshes, and with considerable difficulty Mr. B. was 

 rescued. Seeing the rod moving about on the water, 

 one of the men who could swim well, stripped, swam 

 after, and seized the rod ; after many struggles, the fish 

 was landed and proved to be a pike which weighed 

 sixteen pounds and a half, and measured nearly three 

 feet in length. 



I wrote to the keeper of this water, relative to the 

 terms for angling therein, and on the 31st of August, 

 1854, received a reply from him (W. Clapham) that 

 by paying one shilling for a daj T , the person may take 

 what fish he can. It appears by the map that, by 

 railway, stopping at the Rainham station, the angler 

 could reach the water in a walk of about two miles ; 

 or one mile one furlong to the smallest end of the 

 gulf ; and one mile five furlongs to the Breach House, 

 both from the village of Dagenham. 



In May, 1835, 1 was told by an experienced angler, 

 that there are plenty of rudd in this water, and very 

 good sport may be had by throwing an artificial 

 fly for them ; I do not know if this be so. Rudd are 

 found in the Rhine ; in the Lakes of Holderness, in 

 Yorkshire ; in those not far from Lincoln ; the river 

 Tare in Norfolk, which runs to Norwich, and to the 

 sea near Yarmouth ; and the river Charwell, which 

 passes near Banbury, Oxfordshire. The true rudd is 



