392 Fishing Localities. CHAP. xxvi. 



Bhamo. We never got anything over 5 Ibs. here, but the river is well worth 

 an occasional try to anyone stationed in Bhamo. 



" 3. Namlee Kha (Kha = river, Kachin). This river rises, I believe, near 

 Fort Harrison (Sadon). I fished it where the Sadon road first crosses it. 

 A Mahseer of 18 Ibs. was the best I saw turned over, with a number of 

 others, by a charge of dynamite in the spring of 1892, when the troops 

 camped there required some fresh food. It is in the Myitkyina district. 



"4. Uru River, in the Mogoung district. This river is not easy to get 

 at, but should be tried by anyone who happens to be in the neighbourhood. 

 ,When at the Jade Mines (Fort O'Donriell, Sankah [Kachin]), in 1891, we 

 used to get a few Mahseer, and had we been well supplied with tackle would 

 undoubtedly have caught a lot. I caught a few small ones with flies (small 

 trout flies). 



" I know of labeo only in Nos. i and 2 of above, but expect they are also 

 to be found in the others. The rivers begin to clear the second week in 

 September, and are for the most part in good order by ist October." 



He was also good enough to refer me to the following communica- 

 tion of his to the Asian of 2Oth April, 1894 : 



FISHING WHERE TWO EMPIRES MEET. 



"The Nampoung River, which at present forms part of the frontier 

 between Upper Burma and the Chinese province of Yunnan, is a thirty-two 

 mile journey from Bhamo, easily managed with transport in two days. On 

 the side of the hill above the river valley is a small fort occupied from 

 Bhamo, where a visitor, piscatorial or otherwise, is sure of finding lodging 

 and welcome from the solitary British officer in command. 



" The river averages about thirty yards in width, and empties itself into 

 the Taping, a tributary of the Irrawnddy, about two miles below the fort. 

 In this two miles there are a dozen splendid Mahseer pools, and the inter- 

 vening water is almost all worth fishing. 



" The Taping is unfortunately always coloured, or would be a grand 

 fishing river. About two years ago there was a fine pool formed, where the 

 Nampoung and Taping join, and R. of my regiment, who was here at that 

 time, had three good fish out of it of 60 Ibs., 50 Ibs., and 20 Ibs. Since then 

 the Taping has changed its course somewhat, and the pool is spoilt by its 

 muddy water. I have taken a few small fish there, the biggest i| Ibs., with 

 worm, but have never been able to move anything with any spinning bait. 

 In the Nampoung, above the fort, the fish run small. The best I have 

 taken in that part was 2 Ibs. 5 ozs., but the walking is very much easier than 

 lower down, and there is no necessity for crossing the stream as often as one 

 is obliged to among the big rocks below. 



" My first stay here was from April to July last year, and the river was 

 fishable up to the middle of June, when the rains came down in earnest and 



