Anglers' Calendar for March 



1 Season opens for salmon fishing on Exe, Lune, Seiout ; for trout on Severn, daddy 



Seiout, Wye, Tozvey, Lune, Kent, Wear. 



2 Season opens for salmon and trout on Teign. 

 Sir THOMAS BODLHY, born 1 544. 



3 Season opens for trout on Coquet. 



GEORGE HERBERT, poet, was buried 1633. IZAAK WALTON wrote his life. 



4 PERCY BAYLE ST. JOHN, writer and angler, born 1821 

 8 W. SOWREY GILPIN, angler and landscape painter, died 



10 Derwent, Cumberland and Westmoreland, opens for salmon and trout. 

 Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, born 1799. 



13 THOMAS WESTWOOD, poet and angler, died 1888. 



1 4 Salmon angling commences Wexford district. 



The Hon. DAINES BARRINGTON, angler, naturalist, and correspondent of White of 

 Selborne, died. 



1 5 Salmon angling opens Towey, Eden, Camel, and Forney ,- trout Ouse, Yorkshire, and diyron. 



1 6 Salmon season opens Bantry district. 



Supposed birthday, 1388, <J/"Dame JULIANA BEMERS, writer of 11 Ye Eooke of Ye Angle" 

 JOHN BRIGHT, orator, statesman and angler, born 1811. 



17 JOHN PETTIE, artist and angler, born 1839. 



1 8 GROVER CLEVELAND, President U.S.A., angler, born 1837. 



19 WALTON and COTTON CLUB founded 1817, re-established 1840. 

 21 Trout fishing commences Tyne. 



FRANCIS FRANCIS, angler, writer, sportsman, born 1822. 



23 WILLIAM GREENWELL, Canon of Durham, archaeologist, trout and salmon fisher, 



inventor of 1 ' CjreenweH's Glory" born 1820. 



24 WALTON and COTTON CLUB, Cambridge, founded 1825. 

 WILLIAM MORRIS, poet, printer, painter, and angler, born 1834. 



27 WILLIAM Q. ORCHARDSON, R.A., painter and angler, born at Edinburgh. 

 JOHN BRIGHT, orator and angler, died 1889. 



28 Captain CORAM, angler and philanthropist, died 1751. 

 EDWARD JESSE, naturalist and angler, died 1868. 



29 WILLIAM SENIOR (" Red Spinner "), voluminous writer of books, pressman, and angler, 



born 1839. 



30 Sir HENRY WOTTON, minor poet, angler, diplomatist, and provost of Eton. Born at 



Boughton Hall, Kent. Izaak Walton was his friend and biographer. [See " <?Musa 

 Piscatrix." 



Sir JOHN HAWKINS, biographer of Walton and Cotton, and editor of 1760 edition of 

 " Compleat Angler" born 1719. 



31 Salmon angling opens on Dee (English}, Kent, Leven, Taw, Towridge, and in Kenmare 



district and Killarney district, also on Ouse and Nene ; trout fishing opens on Avon 



and Stour. 

 Dr. DONNE, poet, friend, and contemporary of Izaak Walton, who contributed to 'Donne's 



biography, died 1632. [See " ^M usa Piscatrix" 

 ANDREW LANG, writer and angler, born 1844. [See " fMusa Piscatrix." 



