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spawned, but come up with the bigger ones, will 

 stay in the fresh water pools till June: But these 

 are not so good or so well tasted, as those that 

 have been at sea and are come up again, to recre- 

 ate themselves in the rivers. 



The salmon trout is riot a peculiar or native of 

 the four Northern counties only, but is common 

 in the Southern rivers, though perhaps not in 

 such numbers. In the North our fishermen will 

 generally take six for one salmon or gilse, and 

 do not value them at half the price. 



And now having mentioned the four Northern 

 counties, I challenge Mr. Walton, Mr. Cotton 

 and all the Southern writers, anglers, &c. to tell 

 us of such fish as we have to boast of. 



The Fordidge trout must, I think be a fine 

 fish, but it makes the angler no sport, no more 

 than the Shelsey cockle, the Chichester lobster, 

 or the Arundel mullet : I know not what the 

 Amerly trout may do; but can any or all of these 

 compare with our Winander-meer charr; our 

 bull trout, red trout, whitling, &c. They tell us 

 of killing a brace and a half, or sometimes three 

 brace ; we reckon by scores, and of as large or 

 larger trouts than Dove, or any river in Hamp- 

 shire, &c. can afford. I have with the water 

 cricket in Coquet, at Tod Stead and Brenkburn, 

 in one night killed more than I could lift off the 

 ground. I am ashamed to tell what execution I 

 have sometimes done by other methods, though I 

 always catched them with a fair bait j but this 

 only by the by. 



I have often observed when I have put in a 

 night line, that I have catched the best fish in 



