CHAPTER IV. 



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LINCOLNSHIRE. 



THIS is a good county for bottom fishing. The 

 chief rivers are the Humber, Trent, Witham, 

 Welland, and Ancolm. There are occasionally 

 fine trout taken out of all these waters, but the 

 principal sport arises from the pike, roach, 

 bream, eel, gudgeon, &c. 



The singular pits, or a blow holes " as they 

 are called, on the coast of Lincolnshire, which 

 are filled with fresh water, and which rise and 

 fall with the tides of the ocean, abound with 

 fine fish ; and to those who are skilled in the 

 mode of angling in them, a fair portion of sport 

 may be obtained. 



It is mentioned by Pennant, that in his day 

 immense shoals of sticklebacks appeared every 

 seven or eight years, in the river Welland, 



