THE ANGLERS SOUVENIR. 



of mine in Herefordshire informs me that there 

 has been a deficiency of sport in that part of the 

 country, and he complains much of the rivers being 

 netted by poachers. 



FISHER. The same may be said of some of the 

 best trout streams in Yorkshire and Westmore- 

 land. The Eure, the Ribble, the Lune, the Low- 

 ther, the Esk, and the Eamont, have not afforded 

 average sport this season, as I can testify, both 

 from my own experience and that of others. Some 

 of them have been completely dragged with nets 

 for miles ; and I have seen the waters of more than 

 one of them of a chalky colour for several days, 

 and fish lying dead by their sides, from the more 

 destructive practice of liming. Should these prac- 

 tices be continued, fly-fishers will have no option 

 but to emigrate, and leave the fair but troutless 

 streams of England for the rivers and lochs of 

 Connsmara, or for the virgin waters of the middle 

 and northern States of America, where never yet 

 trout were deluded by the gay deceivers of 

 O'Shaughnessey, Chevalier, or Widow Phun. Un- 

 grateful country ! thou wilt mourn the loss of thy 

 kindest children too late, when thou nearest of 

 them extending civilization, and introducing a 

 knowledge of the gentle art among the wild men of 

 Gal way, or the red man that dwell by Lake Huron, 

 when no longer the trout leaps in thy streams, and 

 when no more the angler's reel is heard sounding 

 on their banks. The gigantic trout of Lake Huron, 



