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fine and very abundant Egharn is the best point to go to for this 

 piece of water. Should the fortunate holder of a ticket desire, 

 however, to fish Virginia Water, he can go on to that station. 



At Weston Turville, between Wendover and Aylesbury, near 

 the Tring Station, on the North- Western Railway, is a reservoir 

 where there are very large pike occasionally, and an abundance of 

 fine roach. Permission by subscription or day ticket. There is a 

 comfortable little inn there, where the tickets are obtained. 



At Shardloes, the seat of Squire Diake, Near Amersham, about 

 eight miles from High Wycombe, Bucks., is a very fine piece of 

 water, abounding in jack. The owner sometimes grants permission, 

 but it is as well to have a friend at Court. The water is rather weedy. 



The waters at Blenheim, near Oxford, are well known. Im- 

 mense jack and shoals of fine perch thickly tenant them, and leave 

 may sometimes be got through the steward of the Duke of Marl- 

 borough ; and if the angler is lucky enough to get a day there, and 

 the day be favourable, it will be a red-letter day in his calendar. 



There are numerous other ponds, reservoirs, &c., about London, 

 which it would fill volumes to enumerate at Stanmore, Middlesex ; 

 Chiselhurst, Kent ; Gallon, Ryegate, Egham, and Godstone (sub- 

 scription and day), in Surrey. There are the canals, Surrey and 

 Paddington ; the New River ; the reservoirs at Hammersmith. 

 In fact their name is legion. In all of them more or less sport may 

 be obtained. 



There are about 300 rivers in England and Wales alone ; and 

 if we said 300,000 ponds, pits, reservoirs, and canals, we should be 

 probably under the mark. We have endeavoured lo poinl oul a 

 few of the best known to us ; and if the angler succeeds in obtain- 

 ing sport in any of them through our means, we shall have done 

 our work satisfactorily. 



We now for the first time proceed to give a list of Fishing 

 Stations, in France and Belgium ; in the localites mosl frequented 

 by Englishmen, most likely to be visited by our wandering pisca- 

 torial countrymen. Any information or correction, as to the ang- 

 ling, eilher upon the Continenl, or al home, will be most grale- 

 fully received by the Author, if addressed to him at the Field Office. 



BRITTANY. 



BY "THE JUDICIOUS HOOKER." 



Anglers and Tourists are particularly and especially requested and begged 

 not to spoil Brittany by over paying the natives, but to have some regard 

 for those who may come after them. As a general rule, if they offer one 

 half of what is asked, it will be accepted, and be perfectly satisfactory. 

 They will gain no more respect for throwing their money away, for " a fool 

 and his money," &c., is a Breton as well as an English proverb. If they 

 have a super abundance, they will do far more good by dropping a few 

 francs into the poor box. 

 There are about 500 streams of various sizes in Lower Briltany, 



which contain trout; and about a dozen frequented by salmon. 



The best routes to Brittany are, 1. By Paris, (steam and rail), thence 



