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arrive at their best until the beginning or middle of 

 May. 



To fish the large rivers such as Eden, Tyne, and 

 Esk, wading- trousers are necessary; for their tributaries 

 and the smaller rivers stockings will suffice, as many 

 of them are wide, although not running to any great 

 depth. 



A rod of 11 or 12 ft. will do all the work with a 

 selection of the ordinary flies, such as — March brown 

 (male and female), light and dark blea or bloa, stone- 

 fly, partridge hackle, olive dun, iron-blue dun, ginger 

 hackle, GreenwelFs glory, and yellow dun. 



We have found the female March brown a better 

 killer than the male, and prefer hen pheasant to wood- 

 cock for the wings. 



The Eden is a very fine river, probably far and away 

 the best in the North of England for trout-fishing, both 

 as regards quantity and size of fish, whose colouring is 

 very rich, varying with the nature of the river's bed ; 

 speaking generally, the Eden trout is a very handsome 

 example of his species. 



The Eden is a well wooded river, with bed alternately 

 of rock and gravel, forming deep pools, capable of 

 holding trout even in the lowest summer water, so 

 excepting in the very highest reaches a flood is the 

 only condition which will interfere with sport. 



The flats grow abundance of weeds, which, with the 

 vegetation growing along the banks, afibrd capital 

 nurseries for the feed. 



