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man myself, and, in fact, fish the Clwyd but 

 very little. The Elwy is a much more swift and 

 turbulent stream, shallow, stony, and boulder 

 strewn. It is more suitable for wet fly, I think. 

 It is likely, I think, that next year or the year 

 after some good baskets of trout will be got in it. 

 Two years ago the river was restocked by the 

 Association, and fish of about 6 in. are now 

 quite plentiful. I do not mean to suggest that 

 there are no bigger ones, and I myself usually do 

 better in this river than in the Clwyd." 



I had some very pleasant days on the Lledr 

 when staying at the house of my friend, Mr. W. 

 FitzNorman Ellis, whose house is most delight- 

 fully situated on the side of a hill overlooking 

 one of the loveliest bits of river and mountain 

 scenery in the world. In one of the pictures 

 Mr. Ellis may be seen fishing the famous Wil- 

 liam's Pool, which is close to his house. Mr. 

 Brandreth, who very kindly gave me carte blanche 

 to fish his fine salmon pools, lent me two of the 

 photographs from which the Lledr views are 

 taken, namely, the Granlyn Pool and one in 

 which he is seen (with his dog) fishing from a 

 pier of rocks in an artificial salmon pool, that is, 

 one of those he has made : in what was formerly 

 a shallow stream there is now 5 ft. to 10 ft. of 

 water, and the salmon take well in these new 

 pools he tells me. I shall refer to this and other 

 matters in connection with salmon fishing on 

 the Lledr and Conway a little later on. 



