THE HAMPSHIRE STREAMS tt^ 



Western Railway skirts. A couple of miles below 

 Heckfield the Whitewater joins the Blackwater,. 

 which shortly afterwards in its turn joins The 

 the Loddon. Trout are not very plentiful White 

 on the Whitewater, but they run to a 

 good size. Dr. Comber, who knows these waters 

 well, tells me that there are a fair number of 

 fish of I lb. and 2 lbs., and that a trout has been 

 killed as heavy as 4 lbs. The May-fly comes on, 

 and among the flies used by the angler are the 

 imitations of the various chalk stream duns, the 

 spinners, the alder and the March brown. Mat- 

 tinglcy may be made headquarters. The White- 

 water is strictly preserved, and has no angling 

 clubs. In its upper part it may be described as a 

 chalk stream, but lower down it flows through loams 

 and gravel. Charles Kingsley lived in the district 

 watered by the Loddon, Whitewater and Black- 

 water, and I believe frequcntl}' angled in them. 



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