THE HAMPSHIRE STREAMS 105 



white in the colour of their flesh, and of an inferior 

 quahty to the Anton and Test fish.^ 



Hampshire almost demands an angling volume 

 to itself, and I find it impossible to give any 

 save a selection of the large quantity of notes 

 which have been very kindly placed at my disposal 

 by proprietors, secretaries of angling clubs, and 

 well-known chalk stream anglers. I must return 

 therefore to the main stream without saying 

 more of the Anton than that its course is by 

 Charlton, Andover, and Goodworth Clatford, three 

 miles below which place is the Test. 



The most famous angling resort on the Test is 

 undoubtedly Stockbridge. For a considerable dis- 

 tance above and below the town the water is fished 

 by the Houghton Club. This celebrated angling 

 club takes its name from Mr. Houghton, a former 

 lessee of the fishing rights of the Manor. Origin- 

 ally it was intended to be not so much a trout as 

 a pike fishing club, and even to-day the quantity 

 of deep water in certain parts of the stream 

 affords only too sure harbour for the latter fish, 

 which are occasionally taken up to a large size. 

 The club was established in 1822, and on its lists 

 have been some illustrious names. Sheridan 

 visited the club, if he did not actually take much 

 part in the angling, and Sir Francis Chantrey, who 

 designed the figure of the trout on the Town Hall 

 of Stockbridge that acts as a weather-cock,^ was a 

 member. The records of the club have been well 

 kept, and they show that the average weight of 

 both trout and grayling killed on this water has 



1 See Appendix " Pilhill Brook." 



2 I am told that it ahvays points in the fishing season to 

 the North ! 



