280 FAVOURITE CASTS FOR ERIOX. 



man who was in the constant habit of participating in 

 this public robbery. 



The best portion of the river for eriox-fishing is from 

 Weldon Bridge downwards. Here there is a good inn 

 for the sportsman's accommodation, and the landlord 

 can grant a ticket for a certain portion of water above 

 bridge. At Felton, a little lower down, there are some 

 prime casts viz., the Diamond Hole, Acton Streams, 

 the Chapelhaugh, Brainshaugh Pool, and the Guisance 

 Water all of which are within reach of the village of 

 Felton, where excellent accommodation may be obtained, 

 and where the tenant of the Northumberland Arms Inn 

 has the privilege of granting tickets for some water above 

 the village, specially preserved for the visitors to the inn. 



The whole of the Coquet is now under the protec- 

 tion of an association of the proprietors, the same as the 

 Tyne, who have each the privilege of granting a ticket 

 for their own water, at a charge of, I believe, 2s. 6d., to 

 go towards defraying the expense of watching, etc. 



Between Weldon Bridge and Eothbury, the trout-fish- 

 ing is excellent, and the trout large and of fine quality, but 

 the river is rather incommoded by trees in some parts. 

 Between Eothbury and Holystone, nine miles above 

 (where there is a well of crystal water, in which tradition 

 says St. Paulinus baptized 3000 converts on one occasion, 

 in the primaeval ages of Christianity), the whole river is as 

 beautiful a specimen of a trouting-stream as the angler 

 can imagine. Shelving gravelly shores, without bush 

 or impediment to mar the operations of the most care- 

 less practitioner ; while an endless succession of stream 



