Anglers' Calendar for November 



(Generally the Best Month for Pike Fishing] 



1 Close time commences Teign, Ouse, Cleddy, Coquet, Add, Aray, Eckaig, Tthan, Nand, 



South Fsk, Fyne, rivers of Orkney, Harris, Uist, Carradale, Fleet, Garnock, Forth, 

 Rue/, Shir a, Inner, lorsa, Laggan, Girvan, Bervie, Coquet; and in Dublin, 

 Skibbereen, Gantry, Kenmare, Killarney, Ballinakill, and Ballycastle districts, 

 Ireland. 



2 Close time for salmon commences on Exe, Towy, Usk, Rumney, Stour (Kent], Severn, 



and in the Letterkenny district, Ireland. 



RICHARD HOOKER (" The Judicious "), died 1600. WALTON wrote his life. 

 4 JAMES MONTGOMERY, poet and angler (Ayrshire), born ijji. 



6 SAMUEL PHELPS, actor and angler, died 1878. 



7 JOHN KYRLE (" the Man of Ross "), he constructed stews and fish ponds, and was so fine 



and simple a character that, living on the Wye which bounded his estate, he ought to 

 have been, and probably was, an angler, though his biographers seem silent about his 

 pursuits offish, died 1724. 



8 THOMAS BEWICK, engraver, naturalist, and angler ; historian too of British Fishes, died 



1828. 



9 PAUL SANDBY, water-colour artist, said to have been an angler in Thames at Windsor, 



died 1809. 

 12 JOHN McDiARMio, writer and salmon angler, died 1852. 



14 Sir CHARLES LYELL, geologist and angler, born 1797. 

 Close time salmon in West Cumberland. 



15 Close time commences for salmon on Toff, Ely, dyron, Lime, Conway, Ogmore, Clwyd 



and Elwy, Nith, Thurso. 

 WILLIAM BLACK, novelist and angler, born 1841. 



1 6 FRANCIS DANBY, artist, and of a family of anglers ; a celebrated Slaney fly is namea 



after them, born 1793. 



Close time commences {salmon) Yorkshire Eden, Kent, Leven, Seiout, Dwyfact, 

 Derwent, Cumberland ; Taw and Torridge, Annan, Stinchar, and the Shetland 

 rivers, and Tay. 



17 THOMAS (Lord) ERSKINE, pleader and angler, died 1823. 



1 8 FRANK STONE, painter and stream angler, died 1859. 

 Professor FORBES, naturalist and angler, died 1854. 



19 EDWARD FITZGIBBON (" Ephemera "), scholar, author, pressman, angler, and diffusive 



and accurate writer on angling, died 1857. 



20 Close time Axe commences. 



21 JAMES HOGG (" Ettrick Shepherd "), Scottish poet and angler, died 1835. 



25 JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott, a salmon angler, 



died 1856. 



Sir FRANCIS CHANTREY, sculptor and angler, died 1841. 

 ANGUS B. REACH, writer and salmon angler, died 1856. 



29 JOHN RAY, piscine naturalist, born 1629. 



F. C. BURNAND ("The Incompleat Angler"), born 1836. 



30 Close time for salmon angling commences, Dovey, Avon, and Erme. 



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