224 FISHES AND FISHING. 



considered one of the first class of fishes ; it is broader 

 than a carp, with scales as large and thicker than a 

 bream, usually twelve to fourteen inches long, of a 

 dusky yellow colour ; the largest are about two 

 pounds. They bite freely, feeding near the top of 

 the water ; baits, red worms and flies. 



At Godstone, in Surrey, according to Salter, there 

 is a pond or ponds, containing abundance of carp, 

 from three to five pounds each; he says, at the 

 White Hart Inn, there, all particulars can be learned — 

 the price charged is thirteen pence per pound for all 

 you catch. He relates that an angler, in one day, 

 took sixty-six pounds and a half of these fish, for 

 which he had to pay three pounds twelve shillings ! 



Six to eight dozen of trout have been taken in an 

 afternoon, in a water belonging (in 1800) to Mr. 

 Brown, four or five miles above Dorchester. 



Durham, Stockton, &c., salmon and trout. — In the 

 river Wear, and its tributaries, salmon fishing is to 

 cease on the 16th of September, and recommence the 

 12th of February. This was settled at Quarter Ses- 

 sions, in October, 1 849, through the interference of 

 the Anglers' Association. 



Hampshire, about Christchurch, salmon and trout. 

 Indeed there are abundance of the latter fish in al- 

 most every river in this county ; particularly the Test, 

 at Whitchurch, Long Parish, Chilbolton, and Stock- 



