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owing to poaching and other causes, are not very 

 numerous. Its supply of water is not so certain as 

 that of the Lambourne, and in many places it is 

 overgrown with weeds and overhung with trees 

 and bushes. Yet it might be made an ex- 

 cellent trouting water by means of dams here and 

 there, and by clearing away some of the vegetation. 

 The trout of the Enborne are decidedly good to 

 eat, though they run at present rather small — a 

 f lb. fish being above the average about Newtown 

 and Greenham. A gentleman who has fished the 

 stream for 38 years tells me that he has found the 

 minnow or a bright fly most effective. The 

 governor, coachman, or red spinner may be used, 

 and in the season the May-fly, which, however, is 

 not very plentiful on this stream. A few pike and 

 other coarse fish frequent the stream, together with 

 plenty of minnows on which the trout feed. There 

 are no clubs on the Enborne. 



The Pang, a very pretty trout stream, rises above 

 Frilsham, and after a course of about twelve miles 

 joins the Thames at Pangbourne. On its The 

 way it passes Bucklebury, Bradfield, and Pang 

 Tidmarsh. The Pang is, in my opinion, an ad- 

 mirable water for the dry fly angler, but trout 

 may, early in the season and high up stream, be 

 taken with a cast of wet flies. In a small tributary 

 or two I have taken them both with dry and wet 

 fly about May-fly time, using the former in the 

 still water and the latter in the stickles. May-fly, 

 alder, the usual chalk stream patterns of duns, and 

 Wickham may be used by the fly fisherman. Gray- 

 ling, I fancy, have been introduced into the water, 

 but they do not seem to have greatly thriven there. 



