100 THE ANGLER'S GUIDE. 



Staines and Laleham are some places suited 

 to bank-fishing. 



LALEHAM 



is a small village, but extremely rural, and 

 pleasantly situated ; the river is very narrow 

 in this part, and shallow : on these shallows 

 many fish are taken by whipping, particu- 

 larly a fish callecj the skegger ; they are a 

 delicious fish, supposed to be of the Salmon 

 or Trout species. You whip for them with 

 a fly rod, light line, and No. 10 hook, baited 

 with a gentle ; these fish are allowed to be 

 caught during the fence months, on the prin- 

 ciple that they are going to leave the river, 

 probably never to return, as the time of their 

 migration is during these fence months. In 

 the summer, Chub and Dace are taken here 

 in the same way of angling, substituting a fly 

 for the gentle. Between Laleham and Chert- 

 sey-bridge, good Barbel, Roach, &c. are 

 caught in a boat, and from the banks. 



