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coupled with the name of the County Hotel, 

 Rothbury, Northumberland. The charms of 

 the Coquet has impelled several local bards to 

 write verses in its praise, while as for the 

 trout their colouring must be difficult to match 

 from other rivers. 



The Coquet rises in the Cheviots between 

 Northumberland and Roxburgh, its course being 

 for the most part eastward. Of its tributaries, 

 the Usway and the Alwine may be mentioned, 

 while at Thropton it is joined by the Wreigh. 

 No one can do better than peruse the short 

 account of the Coquet in the small pamphlet 

 issued by the Northumberland Anglers' Federa- 

 tion. In that, they tell us, the river is most 

 carefully watched, 'the poacher deterred and the 

 true angler encouraged.' Would that this 

 could be said of scores of other good fishings. 



Permits are issued at almost a nominal charge 

 by the Coquet Committee of the Amglers' 

 Federation, so that it is possible to take one 

 out for a day, a week, or a month. The trout 

 season extends from 4th March to the 3Oth 

 September. Monthly tickets cost ten shillings; 

 weekly, seven and sixpence; and daily, half a 

 crown. At the County Hotel, Rothbury, the 

 fishing is free to visitors. Mr. Garvin the 

 manager writes to me under date of January 

 1 8th this year (1912), that the largest yellow 

 trout he has seen captured was 6J Ibs. caught 

 by Mr. Benbow of Edinburgh in August, 1910. 

 As a rule in April good baskets of from two 

 to three dozen are secured, but this last season 



