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like last is little more than a succession of pools 

 with a trickle of stream between them. Want 

 of funds is, of course, the chief reason why these 

 local angling associations cannot do more than 

 they do. What is wanted is that the London 

 and North-Western Railway and the seaside 

 towns of the district, which depend so much 

 on visitors, should strongly support the local 

 associations. It would unquestionably pay them 

 to do so; for as Mr. Roberts points out in his 

 guide, "all fair angling can be compensated for 

 by restocking." 



Mr. Tayler told me that I ought to have a day 

 or two on the fine stretch of water which can be 

 fished by visitors to the hotel at St. George, near 

 Abergele, and I did have a delightful day or two 

 there later on with Mr. Whitty, who knows the 

 whole district. It is as pretty a bit of fly-fishing 

 water as one could wish to see, and two tickets 

 are available by staying at the hotel. Weather 

 and water conditions were against us, and we 

 did very little indeed, so late in the season 

 good sport with the fly is exceptional on these 

 mountain streams. For these reasons (weather 

 and water) I did not avail myself of an invitation 

 to fish the Llanfair and Llangerniew Association 

 Water on this occasion, but hope to have that 

 pleasure at some future time. I had heard about 

 the water from Dr. Humphreys a year or two 

 ago, and Mr. Tayler tells me they have a good 



