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small fish ; and very fine jack are sometimes 

 taken there in the winter. These docks contain 

 some very fine carp and chub, as seen near 

 the top of the water, but they very seldom 

 take the bait. The City Canal is a great deal 

 deeper than the Timber Basin; but as the 

 water runs from one to the other, the fishing 

 in both is much the same. From the jetties 

 in the canal there is good roach fishing, and 

 good perch fishing from the banks. The Com- 

 mercial Dock at Rotherhithe is well stocked 

 with fish ; it contains bream, roach, perch, 

 carp, eels, &c., but the bream are in the greatest 

 abundance, and when they are on the feed, 

 which is in the summer, you may take a great 

 number of them, though generally they run 

 rather small. You must have an order from 

 some person connected with the dock. 



The Grand Surrey Canal Dock, near Deptford, 

 is an excellent place for angling ; roach, perch, 

 bream, carp, tench, eels, &c. are taken there 

 in great numbers in the summer ; and, in the 

 autumn and winter, a good number of jack. 

 It was for a number of years a subscription 

 water, and day-tickets were sold, and a vast 

 number of fish taken ; but the fishing has not 

 been so good in it as it used to be, and we 



