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there is no limit, nor indeed can there be, as the tide-waters 

 cannot be preserved, or the free right of fishing them prohibited. 

 The Tfout here are not only very numerous and of the first 

 quality of excellence — their flesh being redder than that of the 

 Salmon — but very large; the average probably exceeds a pound, 

 and fish of two and two and a half pounds' weight are taken so 

 frequently as to be no rarity. 



" The outlet of this pond, after running a few hundred yards, 

 opeus upon the salt meadows, where there is no obstacle what- 

 ever to throwing a long line. It is broader and longer than 

 any stream we have hitherto encountered, and is incomparably 

 the best, containing fish even larger than those of the pond 

 above, and, in my opinion, of a finer flavour. I believe it, 

 indeed, to be an indisputable fact, that Trout, which have access 

 to salt water, are invariably more highly coloured and flavoured 

 than those which are confined to fresh streams by natural or 

 artificial obstacles. 



" There is no distinction, of which I am aware, in favour of 

 pond or stream, for the use of the fly, the fish taking it readily 

 in either, although as a general rule they will rise to it earlier 

 in the fresh, than in the tide-water. 



" At some distance down this stream there is a range of 

 Avillows on the bank, nearly opposite to a place owned by 

 Mrs. Ludlow ; and under the trees are some holes famous for 

 being the resorts of the largest fish, which afi'ect here the 

 deepest water and the principal channel. Here, as in the pond, 

 fish of two and a half pounds are no rarity, and, in fact, 

 such are taken here more frequently than above. I should say 

 that one would rarely hook a Trout in this stream under one 



