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ting and suppression of poaching have apparently struck the 

 balance. 



The River Yare is free to the public from Norwich down- 

 wards. Just below the city, at Trowse Hythe, and Thorpe, 

 good sport is often obtainable, particularly among the bream ; 

 also with pike, when salt tides have driven them up the river. 

 The first fishing-station of importance is Surlingham Ferry (six 

 miles from Norwich by the river), in the neighbourhood of 

 which are many good roach swims ; but the deep-water places 

 are limited, unless you moor in the channel, which is to be 

 deprecated, both on account of the hindrance to the navigation, 

 and the personal danger to oneself of being run down by one 

 of the large sailing barges called wherries. Two miles further 

 brings us to Erundall, where there is a railway station. This is 

 a favourite resort of anglers, and owing to the extremely sinuous 

 course of the river it is always easy to get a good ' lee ' wherever 

 the wind blows from. The meaning of a ' lee ' is that care is 

 always taken to moor where the water is sheltered from the wind 

 by the bank. This shelter is most desirable, as the river has an 

 average width of fifty yards, and a strong wind blowing down or 

 across a reach gets up a good sea on the leeward shore. 



For some distance below Brundall there are many shoals, 

 and boats look as if they were moored in the middle of the 

 river, but they are in reality only on the edge of the channel. 

 Buckenham Ferry, ten miles from Norwich, is the next ren- 

 dezvous where there is a railway station. From here to Cantley, 

 three miles further, the influence of the tide becomes strongly 

 felt, and there is good deep water in many places close to the 

 banks. From Cantley to Reedham the current becomes stronger 

 and the water deeper, so that lines have to be heavily shotted 

 for float-fishing, and legering for bream is the most productive 

 way of fishing for the large ones. Reedham, which is seventeen 

 miles from Norwich, and ten miles from the sea, may be said 

 to be the limit of angling on the Yare. 



From Reedham a straight canal three miles long makes a 

 short cut to the river Waveney at Haddiscoe, its lowest angling 



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