206 HINTS ON ANGLING. 



The river Ternoise, which runs for more than twenty 

 miles through the hilly country in the Pas de Calais, joins 

 the Canche at Hesdin, where their united waters form a 

 stream of considerable magnitude. The best part of the 

 Ternoise for the angler is some short distance above 

 Hesdin; for when it approaches the walls of the town, it 

 becomes greatly interrupted in its current by mills, and 

 flows rather sluggishly, from the flatness of the valley in 

 this locality. The best plan for fishing it properly is, to 

 commence near St. Pol, and follow the course of the 

 stream down to Hesdin. It runs a pleasant, winding 

 course, broken by many favourable streams, and passes 

 the following picturesque villages, in all of which, the 

 angler will find tolerably satisfactory accommodations: 

 Hermicourt, St. Martin, Monchy, Tilly, Blangy, Blingel, 

 and Auchy. 



The Canche takes its rise at a village called Magnicourt, 

 and traverses a distance of nearly fifty miles, before it 

 falls into the English Channel at Etaples. There are 

 occasionally very large trout caught in the immediate 

 vicinity of the town of Hesdin; but it is better for the 

 angler to go above at least the first mill on the river, 

 before he tries the stream. The water close to the town 

 is much fished by the soldiers with night-lines; and 

 besides this, the bottom of the river is, in this locality, 

 extremely dirty and weedy. The most promising and 

 eligible course is for the angler to go to the small town 

 of Prevent, on the great route from Lille to Paris by way 

 of Eouen, and descend the stream, when he will fall in 

 with some excellent water, both for minnow and fly. In 

 following this course, he will pass through the following 

 villages, Ligny, Boubers, Conchy, Aubrometz, Fillievres, 

 and Wail. The small borough of Old Hesdin, is also 



