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till June, though they began going up rivers not many miles 

 distant in January. You may see sea-trout off the east coast 

 of Norfolk in any of the summer months, and of course the 

 herrings and sprats wait for full summer to come shorewards. 

 Less noted, but very strange migrations, are to be observed 

 among the coarser fish, for which Norfolk Broadland is the 

 most famous resort. 



Anglers in summer are legion ; but visitors cannot com- 

 pete with native devotees in prowess among the bream, 

 which bite best at night and run larger in the basket than by 

 day. It is astonishing what catches a country yokel will make 



with a sturdy clothes-prop and the coarsest of tackle. The 

 common bream teems in every broad, and often affords 

 excellent sport, catches being estimated by stones, and capture 

 by the hundredweight being not unusual. The white bream 

 is abundant, but much more elusive. Bream are somewhat 

 restless in disposition, and move about in wandering shoals. 

 They travel from the broads to the rivers, arid from the 

 rivers back to the broads. These movements may be merely 

 capricious ; they may be governed by some, to us, obscure 

 natural laws, like migration proper. On occasion bream will 

 work well downstream ; and sometimes numbers have been 

 overtaken by the ' salts ' on an unusually big spring-tide, when 

 they have ' turned up,' to struggle feebly and die at the surface, 

 before they could rush back to their favourite safer quarters. 

 Roach and perch are abundant : the latter of late years 



