TOO ANGLING. 



late regulations respecting poaching and netting have operated 

 beneficially for the interests of the fair angler. 



The inns in this place frequented by rod-fishers, are the King's 

 Anns, the Ship, and the Lincoln Arms; and the fishermen are 

 Hams, Keen, Purdue, and Milbourn. 



CHERTSEY BRIDGE is a fair station for the rod. There are 

 some good trout, and a considerable number of perch, jack, and 

 chub. The official list > gives four hundred and forty yards of 

 preserved water, extending from the weir to eighty yards east- 

 ward of the bridge. The inns are the Cricketers, the Crown, and 

 the Swan; and the fishermen Upjohn and Galloway. 



LALEHAM AND PENTON HOOK are places where good fly-fishing 

 can be obtained. t The trout are, on some favourable occasions, 

 taken here in considerable numbers, and some of large size. The 

 waters are preserved _ for the distance of eleven hundred and 

 fifty yards. The inn is the Horse Shoe; and the fishermen the 

 Messrs. Harris. 



STAINES is now a favourite station for the London sportsman 

 on the Thames. Trout-fishing has greatly improved here of late 

 years. The preserved waters extend two hundred and ten yards 

 east of the bridge. Barbel, roach, chub, and a fair portion of 

 gudgeons, are to be caught in this locality. The inns are the Bush, 

 the Angel, t and 'the Swan; and the fishermen, whom we have 

 invariably found very civil and obliging, are Elitcher, Years, Amos, 

 and Chambers. 



WINDSOR has now become a very fair trout station ; some fine 

 lar^e fish have recently been taken in its waters, both with fly, and 

 with natural and artificial minnows. Eton and Surley HalT weirs 

 are favourite spots for good fish. The bridge at Windsor is an 

 excellent place for barbel; and about Datchet this kind of fish are 

 always more than usually abundant. There are numerous shoals 

 of gudgeons about the Windsor and Eton waters, which we have 

 seen taken in large quantities. 



The angling stations of MAIDENHEAD, COOKIIAM, HENLEY, 

 WARGRAVE, READING, PANGBOURNE BURN, and STREETLY, come 

 all within the reach of the London anglers, and are looked upon as 

 suburban % waters f for their especial recreation. We refrain from 

 enumerating their individual properties and facilities for piscat9ry 

 labours ; ^ they all ^bear a strong family likeness. These angling 

 stations just mentioned are all easily accessible by railway convey- 

 ance ; and speaking generally, the further the angler ascends up 

 the river the greater distance ^ he travels towards the higher 

 waters the better will he find this famous stream for the ordinary 

 purposes of trout, and especially of fly-fishing. 



Our limits would not permit us, as we have hastily run over 

 these angling stations on the Thames, to dwell upon the numerous 

 sources of interest embodied in all of them to the rod-fisher of 

 taste and refinement. There are spots of superlative scenic < beauty, 

 and also great literary and historical interest, interspersed in every 



