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This free passage for the ascent of fish keeps 

 the stream well supplied in every part of it 

 both with trout and salmon ; indeed the angler 

 can go to no section of it but he will find sport- 

 There are very few parts of the stream pre- 

 served, and these are of no great extent. An 

 angler may travel the whole river, from its 

 source down near to Brinkburn Priory, a dis- 

 tance of twenty miles, without the slightest 

 interruption. During the season, that is, from 

 the month of March till September, there are 

 almost every day great numbers of expert fly- 

 fishers on its banks from all parts of England. 

 The best stations for a few days' angling in the 

 Coquet, are Harbottle, Eothbury, Weldon 

 Bridge, Felton, and Warkworth. Comfortable 

 and reasonable accommodations will be found in 

 all these places. 



Almost all gentlemen, who have angled for a 

 few seasons in this river, will bear record to the 

 fact that the fish are the most provokingly 

 obstinate that can well be imagined. When 

 they are in the humour, ten or fifteen dozen are 

 a fair day's sport; and perhaps two or three 

 salmon additional. But it often happens during 

 a season that the best and most skilful sports- 

 man will come home with only two or three 

 trout as long as his little finger ; and yet there 



