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Bellingham, Bellingham Castle, is not a fisherman, 

 but he has a general knowledge of how things stand. 

 "The fishing I let annually for netting purposes," 

 he says, " has been very good of late years, especially 

 the last two, and I have had an increased rent. I 

 do not myself think the laws against poaching and 

 pollution are sufficiently enforced."" On the other 

 hand, Mr. W. B. Thornhill, Castle Cosey, writes : 

 " My cousin Sir Henry Bellingham has given me 

 your letter as to the Glyde. For many years I have 

 taken much interest in this river, which for its size 

 and length is, or rather was, a very good salmon 

 river. You can cast across it practically anywhere 

 with a trout rod. The drainage works during the 

 famine time, some fifty years ago, turned what was a 

 pleasant stream into a canal with weirs ; only a few 

 stretches or pools of fishing water were left. Some 

 thirty-five years ago on a little stretch of the fish- 

 able water one rod killed from 70 to 80 fish in the 

 season; now 20 is a good basket for that period 

 on the same water. The fish as a rule are large. 

 Spring fish are seldom under 16 Ibs., and 25 Ibs. is 

 a common weight. Fish from 30 Ibs. to 82 Ibs. are 

 considered big. Fish up to 40 Ibs. have been 

 caught in the nets. There is in the tidal portion 

 a weir so constructed that except at high tide 

 fish cannot get up. A normal summer tide does 

 not bring enough water. The river is overrun with 

 pike and eels. There being no coarse fish for 

 the pike to live on, you frequently see a school of 

 salmon parr going down to the sea in the spring 



