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the greatest quantity, of any stream of the same size 

 I know*. 



o 

 THE WANDLE. 



This beautiful clear stream rises near Croydon, and 

 passes by Waddon mill, Beddington Park, and Car- 

 shalton, where it is joined by another stream, which 

 rises from numerous springs in the neighbourhood, 

 passing under Hackbridge, and on to Mitcham, Mer- 

 ton, and Wandsworth, to the Thames. Near Hack- 

 bridge, on the common, there is free fishing, and some 

 good fish are met with in the spring, but in this river 

 there are but few free places, the fish are fine 

 and large. Below Merton, there are Jack, Roach, 

 and Dace; at the copper mills at Garrat, there is 

 exceeding fine bottom fishing for Roach, Dace, &c. ; 

 and at Wandsworth there is famous Dace fishing, par- 

 ticularly with a fly, just above Watney flour mills. 



I have known several dozens of Dace taken in a 

 day by whipping. A friend of mine tells me, that in 



* I once took, in the month of July, at Southend (in a hole known by 

 the name of Ted Jones's hole, which is at the end of a row of cottages, just 

 above the Green Man, one of the best swims in the river), 16 Dace and a 

 Trout, vpwards of I lb., the smallest Dace weighed half a .pound; and a 

 week after, 16 more Dace exactly the same weight, and a Trout of the same 

 size. I took these with gentles, and a float and fine gut. In the same river, 

 one Easter, I hooked a Trout full 41bs. I had seen a fish, and tried with 

 spinning tackle, but it being faulty, I lost the fish ; this was just above 

 Catford mill. 



