480 2s T OTES OX 1'ISHIKQ WATEKS. 



PIKE-FISHING IN NORFOLK. 



MR. YARRELL gives the following account : " Among the various 

 localities iu England remarkable for the quality as well as the quantity 

 of their pike, HORSEA MERE and HEIGHAM SOUNDS, two large pieces of 

 water in the county of Norfolk, a few miles north of Yarmouth, have 

 been long celebrated. Camden, in his ' Britannia,' first printed in 

 1586, says, ' Horsea pike, none like.' I have been favoured by a gen- 

 tleman of acknowledged celebrity in field sports, with the returns of 

 four days' pike-fishing with trimmers, or liggers, as they are pro- 

 vincially called. In March, 1834, in the waters just named, viz. on the 

 llth at Heigham Sounds, 60 pike, the weight altogether 280 Ibs. 

 On the 13th at Horsea Mere, 89 pike, 379 Ibs. On the 18th, again 

 at Horsea Mere, 49 pike, 213 Ibs. On the 19th, at Heigham Sounds, 

 58 pike, 263 Ibs. : together, four days' sport, producing 256 pike, 

 weighing altogether 1135 Ibs. These meres, or broads, as they are 

 called in Norfolk, are of great extent. Horsea Mere and Heigham 

 Sounds, with the waters connected, are calculated to include a surface 

 of 600 acres." 



MISCELLANEOUS FISHING WATERS. 



SHEPHERDS BUSH, BAYSWATER. There used to be two small subscrip- 

 tion waters (clayponds) here, viz. the Willow Vale Fishery, or Victoria 

 Fishery, and the Star Fishery, tolerably stocked with pearch, tench, 

 roach, and carp ; but one of them has long since been filled up, and 

 the other enclosed. We cite them here to save disappointment, as 

 they are mentioned as still existing in a recent Guide to Anglers. 



KINGSBURY FISHERY, at the Welsh Harp, Brentbridge, on the Edge- 

 ware Road, is 5 miles from Hyde Park, and situated in a rural part of 

 the country. There is very good fishing for pike, pearch, and roach 

 (which run very large), both in the reservoirs aud_the contributory 

 streams of the Brent. The yearly subscription is one guinea, but 

 day-tickets are granted at 2. Gd. for jack-fishing, and Is. without. 

 Subscribers allowed to use two rods, and no more. Punts and boats 

 provided at 2*. 6d. per day. The season commences on the 1st of 

 May, and ends on the last day of February for pearch ; no live or 

 dead bait is allowed before the 1st day of June. Jack -fishing com- 

 mences on the 1st of June, and ends the last day of February. These 

 were the rules in 1855, but we understand the proprietor means in 

 future to permit unlimited fishing all the year round. 



The LAKE IN WIMBLEDON PARK, 7 miles from London, contains a 

 great quantity of fine fish, including pike, (some of which are~ very 

 large,) peaich, roach, large rudd, &c. Permission must be obrained 

 from Barber Beaumont, Esq., of the County Fire Office, and West- 

 hill, Wimbledon Park. 



CLAPHAM COMMON. The Mount Pond used to contain plenty of jack. 

 In 1832, March 1st, Mr. Heseltine, baiting with live dace, killed three, 



