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as the Tamer, Plym, Dart, &c., all requiring fine tackle and 

 rather small flies. 



The Ouse rises in the south of Northamptonshire, near 

 Brackley, enters Buckinghamshire, and passing the town of 

 Buckingham, which it nearly surrounds, runs by Stony 

 Stratford, Haversham, Newport Pagnel and Olney, into Bed- 

 fordshire, near Harrold Hall. From Bromham Hall to 

 Kempston there is first-rate Pike, Perch, and Bream fishing. 

 The Ouse then runs by the town of Bedford, and at Carding- 

 ton and Willington good Jack-fishing is to be had, the stream 

 here being, in parts very slow, the live bait may be used 

 with advantage. Passing Roxton, where it is joined by the 

 Ivel, it runs into Huntingdonshire, near St. Neots, then past 

 the town of Huntingdon and St. Ives into Cambridgeshire by 

 Ely, falling into the sea at King's Lynn, in Norfolk. 



The Nene rises in Northamptonshire, and flows by the 

 town of Northampton ; from Weston Favell to )oddington it 

 is preserved by a club, and good Pike are occasionally taken. 

 It then runs by Thrapston, Oundle, Elton, and Peterborough, 

 and crossing Cambridgeshire, flows into the sea to the west 

 of Lynn. The Nene is noted for large Roach and Eels. 



The Cam has two sources, one rising near Ashwell, and 

 the other bearing the name of Granta, rising near Newport, 

 in Essex ; the latter flows through Linton, Audley End, and 

 Shelford, where there are some good Pike and Berch, and 

 unites with the Cam near Cambridge, above and below which 

 place there is some good trolling, the river being preserved 

 by the Cam Angling Society. About six miles from Cam- 

 bridge, at Waterbeach, the river is again under the care of a 

 club, and good fishing may occasionally be had, as also at 

 Grantchester ; near Harrimere it joins the Ouse, and the 

 united streams pass Downham in Norfolk to King's Lynn, 

 where they fall into the sea. 



The Trent rises on the borders of Cheshire, in the north- 

 west part of Staffordshire, which it crosses in a south-east 

 direction through Stoke-on-Trent and Trentham Park ; at 

 Trentham Hall, there is a painting of a large Pike that was 

 found dead in a jcanal in the park ; it had seized a swan by 

 the head, and their mutual struggles resulted in the death of 



