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the option of renewing them. Five of these tickets are 

 reserved for persons living twenty miles from the town. 



Rule 6 provides : That the price of salmon and trout 

 season tickets be 4<D/-, except to persons who, in the 

 judgment of the committee, are professional fishermen, 

 who will be charged ;io; season tickets for trout, 

 2O/-, to admit the use of fly, worm, minnow, or gentle; 

 season tickets for trout, if fly only be used, io/-. Day 

 tickets for salmon and trout, 5/-, to be restricted to 

 persons residing io miles or more from the town ; day 

 tickets for trout, fly only to be used, 2/6 ; or 5/- to 

 admit the use of worm, minnow, or gentle. None of 

 these tickets are transferable, except as provided for in 

 Rule 8. Also that tickets for clodding for eels shall 

 be issued at 5/- ; and that tickets for dace fishing during 

 the trout closed season shall be 5/- ; or to include both 

 eels and dace, io/-, such fishermen to be subject to 

 Rule io, as to time of fishing. Ladies may be allowed to 

 fish on the payment of half the price of any of these 

 tickets. 



The Association has about two miles of water, most 01 

 which can be fished from both banks. The Marquis of 

 Abergavenny gives the right of fishing from his property 

 on the left bank, while the Association rents the right bank 

 from a local landowner. 



THE BIRDSGROVE FLY-FISHING CLUB, MAYFIELD, 



ASHBOURNE. 



This club, which is limited to twenty members paying 

 an annual subscription of five pounds each, was formed by 

 J. H. Villiers, Esq., and fishes four miles of the river Dove 

 situate about a mile from Ashbourne, and lying between 

 the Okeover and Norbury Fishing Clubs. The river 



