90 PRINCIPAL FISHING STATIONS. 



as far as the bridge, crossing the new mail road 

 from Cowbridge, are the finest angling stations on 

 the unpreserved portion of the Ewenny. The 

 heaviest fish, however, lie from below the last- 

 named bridge to the river's confluence with the 

 Ogmore, near the castle of that name ; but, before 

 you attempt to angle in this part, it will be necessary 

 to obtain permission from Colonel Turberville, of 

 Ewenny Abbey, who, we believe, never refuses it 

 to the fair angler. We once took seven large trout 

 near a mill, situated about half a mile from the 

 mouth of the river, without moving twenty yards 

 from the spot where we had first stationed our- 

 selves. The flies were, a blue dun fly, with a body 

 composed of a mixture of green and yellow wool 

 and gold thread; dropper, a coch-y-bondy. There 

 are some excellent anglers and fly-tiers, who haunt 

 and poach this stream. A shoemaker, and a deaf 

 and dumb man of the village near its mouth ; 

 Stradling of Bridgend, and Jenkins, a one-armed 

 man, of the same place, are also capital fishermen ; 

 yet to employ or encourage them in any way serves 

 only to confirm them in their mal-practices. Cotton, 

 of St. Bride's Minor, the Earl of Dunraven's keeper, 

 is a most expert salmon fisher. 



The principal Fishing Stations are, 



BETTWS on Ogmore, five miles from Bridgend, 

 watered also by the Llwynvi and the Garw. 



BLAEN GWRACH on the Gwrach. This village 

 is situated near the head of the Vale of Neath, here 



