36 ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT FISHERIES 



as far up the Duddon as the mouth of Moasdale 

 beck. This is another way of saying that the 

 Duddon is a splendid nursery and breeding stream 

 a consolation, although a poor one, to the local 

 anglers whose takes of salmon are comparatively 

 few. 



To return, however, to the Duddon side. The 

 third and final reach is through the Duddon Hall 

 estate to Duddon Hall, thence to its confluence 

 with the Lickle, where the tidal portion may 

 be said to commence. Than this, no stretch of 

 river could be finer. Just before Duddon Hall 

 where the Logan beck enters the river widens and 

 deepens ; and from this point to Duddon Bridge it 

 presents a splendid series of streams and pools 

 which have every appearance of holding good fish ; 

 and this stretch perhaps provides the best salmon- 

 fishing in the river. Numbers of good fish have 

 been taken here from time to time, and the name of 

 almost every pool is suggestive in this connection 

 Rowfold pool, the Major's pool, and so on. 

 Still lower is a series of pebbly reaches, on which 

 there are fair trout ; until half a mile below 

 Duddon Bridge, the river Lickle effects a junction 

 not precisely with the Duddon itself, but with 

 the higher portion of the estuary. Here the 

 water is brackish, and during high spring tides the 

 tidal water enters the Lickle mouth, flowing for 

 quite a mile up that stream. 



It is in the lower portion of the river where the 

 only serious trout-fishing is to be had, and this is 

 good only in a spate or in summer when the 

 water is low. The last, of course, is night-fishing 

 with winged-flies, and in this way the best fish 

 are taken. Some of the trout take up their resi- 



