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Watford, and down to Denham, the trout fishing is very good 

 At Rickmansworth there is a club, the subscription to which is 

 either three or five guineas per annum ; and about midway between 

 Watford and St. Alban's Mr. Alfred Gould, (the tackle maker, in 

 Oxford-street,) has an excellent piece of water, about a mile and 

 a half, well stocked with good trout. He lets the water, this year, by 

 six tickets, at 101. 10s. each. It is a capital stretch of water, and well 

 stocked. Below Rickmansworth there is good bottom fishing in 

 the Coppermill stream, which is rented by a fishing society at 

 Clerkenwell. On the Chess, a tributary of the Colne, at Chenies 

 and Charlewood, the trout were very abundant, but last year they 

 were distroyed by the bleach-water from a paper-mill, and it must 

 be years before the river recovers. 



THE KEN NET (Trout and Pike), Hungerford, Berks. Good 

 trout fishing, by season ticket, 21. 2*. ; or by month, week, or day 

 tickets, I/. It., 10s. 6d., and 2*. Qd. respectively. J. Platt, Esq., 

 is the secretary ; but any of the inns will supply the angler with a 

 ticket. The trout are fine and plentiful. Flies of any of the Lon- 

 don tackle makers. There are also a few pike in some parts of the 

 water. Season, from the first of July to the end of August; but 

 the trout are not in good condition before May, and hardly then. 

 Great Western Railway to Hungerford. 



THE WICK (Trout and Bottom Fishing). At High Wycombe, 

 Bucks., there is an excellent trout stream, where the trout are ex- 

 ceedingly fine two, three, and four pounds, or even up to six or 

 seven pounds, being not unfrequently caught, and of verv fine 

 flavour. The greater part of the fishing belongs to Sir G. Dash- 

 wood, who gives the right to his tenants, the millers on the banks, 

 who are not sportsmen, and with one or two exceptions never give 

 leave to a rod. The entire water is but of short extent, however, 

 not above three miles for immediately below the town there is a 

 paper-mill which destroys nine miles of the best trout stream in 

 England, best, both on account of its being so wonderfully prolific, 

 and of the trout being so extremely fine. However, there are two 

 pieces of the river open, about half a mile, perhaps, in all one on 

 the London road, and one on the Oxford road ; they are not worth 

 fishing however. There is, besides this, an open bit, called The 

 Dyke, which is a branch of the river, and runs through Lord Car- 

 rington's grounds, that contains fine jack and perch, with tench and 

 large carp, and an abundance of very fine roach. An application 

 to Lord Carrington's steward will easily obtain permission to the 

 whole extent of this water, if the family be not there. Sir G. 

 Dashwood sometimes gives leave to fish in his park, at West Wy- 

 combe, and there are jack, perch, &c., and some trout. Great 

 Western Railway. 



THE WINDRUSH, Witney, Oxfordshire. There is, or was, (for 

 it is much poached), fine trout fishing here. The fish are equally 

 fine and large with the High Wycombe fish. They are not 



