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standing the high -pink colour of its trout, 

 their flavour is not good. 



TJie Churnet is a good stream for trout, and 

 many persons think highly of the quality of 

 its grayling. There are too many coarse fish 

 in it, to allow it to be a stream to our liking. 

 It flows by the town of Leek, but on account 

 of the effect of the silk-dying mills, in that 

 town and its neighbourhood, on the water, 

 there is no fishing till the angler arrives at 

 Oakmoor Wire -mills. From these mills to 

 where the Churnet empties itself into the 

 Dove, between Rocester and Crake Marsh, 

 there is very tolerable fishing. The flies to 

 be used are to be the same as those that suit 

 the Dove, but they must be much larger, and 

 dressed on a No. 4 Kendal hook. 



TJie Blythe abounds in trout and grayling. 

 It rises in the neighbourhood of Watley-moor, 

 and falls into the Trent near King's Bromley. 

 Its scenery is worthy of notice in the vicinity 

 of Blithefield, the seat of Lord Bagot, but no 

 where else. The same flies that are taken in 

 the Churnet will kill in the Blythe. It is a 

 capital river for spinning the minnow. 



There are several brooks in the neighbour- 

 hood of Ashborne famous for their trout. 

 The following are the principal ones. 

 Bradbourn-brook has excellent trout, and the 



