224 FISHES AND FISHING. 



considered one of the first class of fishes ; it is broader 

 than a carp, with scales as large and thicker than a 

 bream, usually twelve to fourteen inches long, of a 

 dusky yellow colour ; the largest are about two 

 pounds. They bite freely, feeding near the top of 

 the water ; baits, red worms and flies. 



At Godstone, in Surrey, according to Salter, there 

 is a pond or ponds, containing abundance of carp, 

 from three to five pounds each; he says, at the 

 White Hart Inn, there, all particulars can be learned 

 the price charged is thirteen pence per pound for all 

 you catch. He relates that an angler, in one day, 

 took sixty- six pounds and a half of these fish, for 

 which he had to pay three pounds twelve shillings ! 



Six to eight dozen of trout have been taken in an 

 afternoon, in a water belonging (in 1800) to Mr. 

 Brown, four or five miles above Dorchester. 



Durham, Stockton, &c., salmon and trout. In the 

 river Wear, and its tributaries, salmon fishing is to 

 cease on the 16th of September, and recommence the 

 12th of February. This was settled at Quarter Ses 

 sions, in October, 1849, through the interference of 

 the Anglers' Association. 



Hampshire, about Christchurch, salmon and trout. 

 Indeed there are abundance of the latter fish in al 

 most every river in this county ; particularly the Test, 

 at Whitchurch, Long Parish, Chilbolton, and Stock- 



