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them but five pounds weight. Take it altogether, 

 I don't know a surer river than the Dee : if they 

 won't rise between Bala Pool and Llangollen, 

 they won't rise anywhere." 



A favourite station with some anglers is the 

 Druid, about two miles from Corwen, situate on 

 the Holyhead road, and close to the Alwen. 



Five miles above Corwen is Llandrillo, which 

 is convenient for anglers preferring that im- 

 mediate part of the river : there is a comfortable 

 little house of no pretension, where you may 

 have very good accommodation. We must con- 

 fess we do not prefer this part of the river. The 

 streams are shallower and broader, destitute of 

 the large rocks and stones which are found lower 

 down, and consequently more easily netted, of 

 which two or three most notorious poachers at 

 Cynwyd,* a hamlet in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood, have too much availed themselves. Higher 

 up, the character of the river again improves, 

 and by making the "Lion" at Bala one of your 

 stations, you have a variety of fishing seldom 

 offered to the angler at any one spot. 



Indeed Bala has become to many whose love 

 of the craft induces them to reside occasionally 

 in Wales, a sort of " head quarters," whence to 



* This poaching has lately been put a stop to, by 

 the Association for preserving the River Dee Fishery. 



