Anglers* Calendar for February 



(" Spring " Salmon Fishing thought to be at the best. 'Trout ^Angling 



not yet very good, except in a few Irish rivers. Tike 



Fishing still good} 



1 Salmon angling opens Avon and Stour, Teify, Claddy, and in Lismore and Skibbereen 



districts ; trout fishing on Taff~ and Ely. 

 EDWARD DONOVAN, naturalist, angler, died 1837. 



2 Salmon angling opens Dundalk district. 



3 GERVASE MARKHAM, buried 1636-7 (born about 1568). 



10 JAMES SMITH, comic writer ard collaborates with his brother Horace, born 1775. 



1 1 MACVEY NAPIER, editor, in early life an ardent angler, died 1847. 



12 Salmon angling opens Drogheda district. 



EDWARD FORBES, naturalist, " mayfly " angler on Lough Derg, Ireland, born 1815. 



13 SAMUEL PHELPS, born 1804. 



LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, statesman, sportsman, and keen angler, born 1849. 



14 Salmon angling commences J[yron, Cork district ; and trout fishing, Usk, Clwyd, Elwy, 



Dart, Dee. 

 THOMAS TOD STODDART, writer and angler, born 1810. [See " Musa Piscatrix" 



15 Salmon angling begins Eden, *Add, Jtray, Eckaig, North ana South Esk, Fyne, Rue/, 



Shira, Eden, and rivers of Bute. 

 JOHN PHILIPS (the cider poet), author of 11 The Splendid Shilling," died 1708. 



17 WILLIAM COLLINS, painter and angler, died 1847. 



1 8 THOMAS SATCHELL, publisher and Walton bibliographer, born 1830. 



19 Sir RODERICK MURCHISON, geologist. " In Russia I felt how much I had lost in forgetting 



what I knew of angling when a boy" born 1792. 

 21 JOHN PETTIE, painter and angler, died 1893. 



24 Salmon angling opens Girvan, Bervie, Carradale, Fleet, Garnock, Inner, lorsa, Irvine, 



Laggan, Luce, Lorn, Ugie, Ythan, Annan, Stinchar, Nith, and the rivers of 

 Orkney, Uist, and Harris. 



25 GEORGE DON, naturalist and angler, died 1856. 

 CHARLES LAMB ("Elia"), born 1775. 



27 Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK, Viceroy, successful salmon angler in Erne at Ballyshannon, 



born 1802. 



28 Trout fishing begins Teify, Avon, Erne, Eden, Ogmore, Clwyd, Elwy, Dart ; salmon 



fishing Dart, Yorkshire and Ballyshannon district. 



29 Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY, writer and keen angler, died 1860. [See " IM usa Piscatrix" 

 In this month (date not recorded}, 1633, died " Sweet GEORGE HERBERT," the poet whose 



life Walton wrote ; also CHARLES COTTON (1687), whose writings and name are 

 perpetuated by his connection with Izaak Walton. 



