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well: Hackle flies; (i) Black Spider, from cock 

 starling neck (brown silk) ; (2) Red Spider, outside 

 landrail (yellow silk) ; (3) Dun Spider, under star- 

 ling wing (yellow silk). Winged flies ; (i) Quill 

 feather of starling wing (hare lug body or wood- 

 cock under wing) ; (2) Woodcock Wing (yellow or 

 orange silk) ; (3) Snipe Feather (purple silk). Fish- 

 ing in clear water (with Stewart's tackle, worm 

 being used as bait) is successfully followed. In a 

 spate trout greedily take cod bait, sleughs, and 

 maggots or gentles, in the smaller streams. 



In 1890, one Thomas Thwaites, a railway la- 

 bourer, caught in the river Derwent, near Portin- 

 scale, with the rod, a lake-trout weighing 10 Ibs. 

 2 oz. ; its length was 28J inches, and its girth 

 17 inches. It was stuffed and put into a case 

 which is now fixed to the wall in the entrance hall 

 of the Queen's Hotel, Keswick. 



Many years ago two famous local anglers, Kitty 

 Boustead and Tom Musgrave, killed together, in 

 the Borrowdale Beck, between Rosthwaite and 

 Grange Bridge, in a little over two hours, with 

 bracken-clock, in June, forty-four fish, weighing 

 about 22 Ibs. The bracken-clock, or fern-fly, comes 

 out in the last week in May, more generally in June. 

 It is found on sunny days among the brackens or 

 ferns on the fells. For fishing bracken-clock, the 

 angler may use hook No. 4 (Kendal size), tied upon 

 gut 6 feet long, and should throw up stream. 



A syndicate of riparian owners have leased Lord 

 Lonsdale's rights from the sea to Ripton Hall 

 (over three miles) for the purpose of improving the 

 fishery. If by sale of permits, &c., they do not 

 raise sufficient to pay rent, &c., they make up the 

 deficiency by netting and using the coops, 



