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the clear-water worm, which follows it in time, and 

 is killing up to the end of July. 



There is a form of fishing rather peculiar to the 

 Eden, viz., bustard fishing at night. June is the 

 best month, and it is used after it becomes too 

 dark for the small fly, say after about 10 to 10.30. 

 The original form used to be a brown wing from 

 an owl or nightjar's feather, rough woolly body 

 tied on a No. 6 or 7 Allingham hook, on which is 

 stuck a maggot. The famous Dicky Routledge, a 

 keen night-fisher, finding the baiting in the dark a 

 nuisance, adopted the plan of tying in at the bend of 

 the hook a small piece of chamois leather, and this 

 form of bustard has ever since been adopted, and 

 kills well, but it requires very quick striking. 



In June, 1865, Mr. Jonathan Bell, of Beck Bank, 

 was fishing in the Eden, near Great Salkeld, when 

 he hooked a trout which kept him an hour before 

 he was able to land it. It proved to be a splendid 

 specimen of the brown trout, weighing 7 Ib. 5 oz. 



Towards the end of July herlings, called locally 

 whitings, begin to appear, sometimes in large 

 shoals, and afford good sport in a full water during 

 the daytime, and in low waters at night. The 

 mode of fishing is much the same as for trout. 

 They are never numerous, except in the Associa- 

 tion water, so that it is worth while taking out a 

 ticket, especially as a sea-trout or two may be 

 expected. 



The same seasons and modes of angling apply 

 to the tributaries of the Eden so far as concerns 

 trout fishing. There is a considerable amount of 

 open water in some of them, and a ticket cover- 

 ing several miles of the Irthing can be obtained 

 from the Brampton Angling Association at the 



