6 THE JOLLY ANGLER. 



piers have been pulled out to make way for the present 

 noble structure of stone, which affords no encouragement 

 to the fish, though there are still plenty in its vicinity. 

 We now come to 



TWICKENHAM DEEPS, 



an excellent situation for angling, with the King's Head 

 and George, good houses of accommodation for the 

 angler. From Twickenham Deeps I should say the chance 

 of large fish rather falls off towards 



RICHMOND. 



Here are still some good places for angling; but the fish 

 run smaller, though I think more numerous, than in the 

 former .parts. From Richmond downwards there is 

 nothing worth noting till you come to 



PUTNEY BRIDGE, 



a place I recommend to the London angler, who has but 

 a. fern hours to spare. Here you fish the tide down until 

 low water, (spring tides excepted, which run too rapid for 

 the first three hours ; the flood tide is no good to the 

 angler, ) the last two hours of the ebb tide ; if the fish leave 

 off biting at the pier-head, I would advise you to try 

 under the arches, along the side of the piles, in the deep 

 water, where in autumn the large Roach lie: all the best 

 piers to angle from are on the Surrey side of the river*. 

 Your boat should be moored to the bridge in the manner 

 here described in a bird's-eye view: 



* Of late years the fish have taken their autumn abode more in 

 the middle of the river. 



