302 THE GLEN. 



of Lanton, past Coupland Castle and Ewart Park, for a 

 distance of five or six miles, discharges itself into the 

 Till at Ewart. 



The whole of this river is at present strictly pre- 

 served, so that it is of little use to the angling com- 

 munity at large, until "the good time coming" may 

 bring with it more liberal ideas in this respect ; but it 

 is well worthy of a passing notice, and it is unquestion- 

 ably the queen of fly-fishing streams in the north of 

 England, and may perhaps be entitled to bear the palm 

 over a wider district. The whole of it is an unin- 

 terrupted succession of beautiful streams and pools, 

 literally swarming with good-sized trout ; and with a 

 brisk westerly breeze, the angler, who is fortunate 

 enough to obtain leave, may fill his creel in a very short 

 time. Having little acquaintance with the angler's 

 arts, the fish are comparatively bold and unsuspicious, 

 and rise at the fly like heroes. I have known twenty- 

 four pounds of trout killed with fly in three or four 

 hours on this river; surely enough to satisfy the 

 cravings of the most greedy sportsman. Here the dun- 

 drake in its season, as well as all the different spring 

 duns in succession and the gravel-fly, are most killing 

 flies in the early part of the season ; and in May and 

 June, the little yellow mayfly, yellow sally, spider-fly, 

 little whirling dun, and the hare-ear and woodcock, will 

 be exceedingly well taken in the former month ; while 

 the alder-fly, the green and gray drakes, the sand-fly, 

 the red-spinner, the crane-flies in a good breeze, the 

 hare-ear and pheasant, the small black fly, and the dun 



