RIVERS OF THE DISTRICT 25 



A good plan, if the angler should have a full 

 day before him, is to fish rapidly up stream with 

 Pennell tackle until the flies begin to hatch out ; 

 then turn round at once, and fish the fly carefully 

 down. 



About 5 miles from its mouth the angler will 

 come to what he will naturally take to be the source 

 of the stream. This appearance is, however, decep- 

 tive, as from this point for some two hundred yards 

 or so the beck filters through some natural sand- 

 beds, and from where this filtration commences 

 up to its source, some of the best Pennell fishing 

 on the whole stream is obtainable, and by keeping 

 out of sight, and dropping the worm into any likely 

 hole, trout may be taken where the beck is not a 

 couple of yards wide. 



A small runner called London beck, which flows 

 in an easterly direction from the hamlet of Little 

 London, and empties itself into the Sprint, will 

 be found an excellent one for Pennell fishing. 



It will be found that the fish in the Sprint are 

 not so good either as regards size or quality as 

 those taken in the Kent and Mint ; and should 

 a backward spring be experienced it is not advis- 

 able to commence fishing until May, as the trout, 

 under these circumstances, are not in takeable con- 

 dition before that time. Should the angler be fond 

 of spate fishing, fish can be taken in large quan- 

 tities, as there is no better beck in the district 

 where trout bite so freely at worm as the Sprint. 



The scenery in the Longsleddale valley is equal 

 to any in the Lake District, the accommodation 

 being of the farmhouse type, plain but good ; and 

 roughly speaking, the fishing may be said to be free 

 from source to mouth. 



