242 FISHES AND FISHING. 



should grace the dinner table on the day the son 

 attained his majority. 



The regular season for angling with a fly, and that 

 is the only bait allowed in the private waters of the 

 Wandle, is, from the first of May to the fifteenth of 

 September ; the same as in the Hampshire and other 

 trout rivers. And, upon one card of admission sent to 

 me, for the then Mr. An sell's Printing Ground, it is 

 requested, that no fish be killed under half a pound 

 weight. Now this I consider is too small ; and it 

 would be better to permit none to be taken under the 

 size directed by 1 Eliz., cap. 17, viz. not less than 

 eight inches from the eye to the end of the flesh, in 

 the middle of the tail ; and a well-fed fish of that 

 size will weigh three quarters of a pound. 



Some of the trout in this river come into season 

 the latter end of March or the beginning of April ; 

 the late Sir Anthony Carlisle shewed me two or three 

 brace, which he had then, the middle of March, taken 

 in Mr. Ansell's water, and they appeared, to the eye, 

 in very good condition. 



Trout fishing in Wales, Cumberland, and West 

 moreland, begins two months before it does in Kent, 

 Surrey, Middlesex, and Hampshire ; in these latter 

 four counties, the season is from the first of May to 

 the first of September, in some streams, and to the 



