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tenth or fifteenth, in others. In the Test to the 

 last-mentioned day. 



Trout are taken in the Thames in March ; but they 

 are valueless as food, and no person ought to he al- 

 lowed, either with fly, or spinning a gudgeon, dace, or 

 bleak, to take them until the Ist of May; and it is 

 illegal to take them after the 13th of September. In 

 the Tweed, the salmon fishing ends the 15th, and in 

 the Severn, the 17th of September. 



In the "Globe" of 12th Sept., 1854, it is stated 

 under the head " Severn fish, Mr. Lloyd took between 

 Cound lane and Coppice head, last week, two salmon, 

 one six pounds, and the other twenty-two pounds, in 

 prime condition ; nine and a half brace of perch ; four 

 and a half brace of trout ; and six and a half brace of 

 greyling.'* — Copied from the^'ShrewsburyChronicle." 



Near Shrewsbury j Ludlow, Cundover, and Wem, 

 there are salmon, salmon trout, trout, grayling, sal- 

 mon fry, gravlings, or gravel last springs, or samp- 

 sons ; these last being young salmon, should not be 

 taken under a heavy penalty, being, no doubt, identi- 

 cal with the skegger of the Thames, and the scegger 

 of the Mersey. In the Clun Water there are some 

 barren trout, which are in season all the year, accord- 

 ing to Taylor. Have these barren trout ever been 

 examined by a competent naturalist, as to their 

 sexual character ? 



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