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Angling Club, who employ a regular keeper. With 

 the aid of one of the bailiffs of the Eden Fishery 

 Board, who lives close to Edenhall, and occasionally 

 a gamekeeper, he is able to keep the water pretty 

 clear of night poachers. Otherwise it would be 

 "raked" heavily during the summer. The trout 

 run about three to the pound, and give nice sport. 

 In the autumn there is often some good salmon 

 fishing two, three or four fish being frequently 

 killed by an angler in one day, when the river is in 

 good ply after a flood. There is seldom any 

 sport in the spring. Salmon do not take the 

 Armathvvaite weir much before May, by which 

 time the best of the spring fishing is over. It 

 remains to be seen whether the salmon-pass at the 

 weir will improve matters in this respect. It is 

 more likely to benefit the autumn fishing. The 

 same flies are used as on the Eden. 



The Petterill 



The Petterill rises in the hills south of Penrith, 

 and is a noted little river, the trout being of 

 superior quality, in fact the best in Cumberland 

 and the earliest in condition. It is, however, a good 

 deal poached above the limit of the Eden Fishery 

 District, which is at Wreay Bridge, about four and 

 a half miles above Carlisle. The " merrie citie " 

 contains a number of night poachers who like to 

 get at water which is out of the regular beat of the 

 water bailiffs, though they get taken in sometimes, 

 being followed to the higher reaches, collared and 

 locked up. Some of the Petterill is preserved, but 

 in the lowest three miles there is little restriction, 

 and it thus affords sport to many who have no 



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