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during the early part of the season, i. e. in April, before the water has 

 been too much fished. About a mile above Farningham are the 

 grounds of Sir Thomas Dyke, Bart., where the water abounds with 

 fine trout. 



THE WICK, IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 



THIS beautiful little river rises in Buckinghamshire, not far from 

 West Wycombe, runs through the grounds of Lord Carrington and 

 the town of HIGH WYCOMBE, and after winding through a rich country, 

 and supplying a number of paper-mills, falls into the Thames near 

 MARLOW. It abounds with fish, and the trout are very numerous, 

 though not usually large, the average being under a pound. The pro- 

 prietors of the mills must be applied to for permission to fish, which is 

 seldom refused. At Mr. Street's mill, a little below Wycombe, where 

 the water is well preserved, Hofland once killed twenty brace of fine 

 trout in four hours. 



The landlord of the principal inn at Marlow (The Anglers) is ac- 

 quainted with several proprietors of the waters, and, through him, an 

 angler taking up his quarters at his house may gain permission to fish. 



THE OUSE. -This river, which rises in the county of Northampton, 

 nearly surrounds the town of Buckingham, and abounds with pike, 

 pearch, and common fish, but not trout. The Colne (already described) 

 flows by the rural villages of BIBURY and BARNSLEY, and thence to 

 RICKMANSWORTH. In a branch of this river, near CHENEYS, Sir Anthony 

 Carlisle, one of the most skilful fly-fishers in England, once killed sixty/ 

 brace of trout in a few hours. 



DERBYSHIRE RIVERS. 



THE TRENT rises in the north-west part of Staffordshire, on the 

 borders of Cheshire, and taking a south-east direction, crosses Stafford- 

 shire, to the verge of Leicestershire and Derbyshire ; then taking a 

 north-east direction, it crosses the counties of Derby and Nottingham to 

 Newark, whence it flows through a part of Lincolnshire, and, joining 

 the Ouse, the united streams become the Humber. Its entire course is 

 250 miles, of which 170 are navigable. This noble river abounds with 

 fish through its whole course, and is celebrated for its large pike. It 

 has been said by some to derive its name from the thirty streams 

 which it receives, by others from the varieties of fish found in it. 

 Near its source, and for many miles afterwards, it contains very fine 

 trout and grayling ; but when it reaches the counties, of Nottingham 

 and Derby, they become scarce. 



Formerly salmon of a superior description were caught in the 

 neighbourhood of NOTTINGHAM, but not now. Four or five miles above 

 or below the town there is good fishing for pike, pearch, barbel, chub, 

 roach, dace, eels, bream, and every other kind of coarse fish, but nearer 

 the town the river is too often fished by the stocking-weavers to afford 

 much sport. There is a peculiar mode of fishing for gudgeons practised 

 in this river, about Nottingham, called " muddling for gudgeons." The 



