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have such good sport, seeing that during the night 

 a terrific thunderstorm came on with torrents of 

 rain. Standing at the door, and gazing at the 

 brilliant light and the intense darkness which in 

 quick recurrence overspread the marsh, and listen- 

 ing to the savage crack and heavy roll of the 

 thunder, and the hissing of the rain on the river, 

 we thought we had never seen such a storm. The 

 tide, which " backs " the water of the Yare as far 

 as Norwich, had risen to a favourable height for 

 bream-fishing, our informant told us, and for two 

 or three hours the fish had bitten as fast as possible. 

 When the tide is right, and the big bream do come 

 on the feed, the catches are often almost incredible 

 in weight and number, and the largest fish appear 

 to be caught where the water is slightly brackish. 



We fished ourselves the whole of the next day ; 

 and although it was after rain, neither we nor any 

 of the other half-dozen boats out caught more than 

 a dozen small ones each. 



A few days afterwards we found ourselves sailing 

 up the Bure, hastening to keep an appointment to 

 meet some friends, and have a day's bream-fishing 

 near Eanworth Broad. We had hoped to reach 

 Ranworth that night, but the wind died away 

 towards evening, as it usually does in the summer 

 time ; and long before we reached Acle we had to 

 take to our oars. The darkness came on too, and 

 we had rather a weary pull ere we reached Acle 

 Bridge. While rowing along in the deep gloaming 



