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were fishing from the opposite bank a seat in his boat, but 

 they " thought they would remain where they were," although 

 Mr. Hopper was catching some very fine dace. Well, those 

 Nottingham anglers must have had " fits " when they shortly 

 saw Mr. Hopper hauling in a carp bream nearly every swim 

 down, but he felt there was no occasion, having once shown 

 his politeness, to repeat his offer. They caught one eel and 

 one flounder from the bank, and spent a good part of their 

 morning under the " stewy " protection of a. haycock ; but, 

 Godfrey Daniel Simpson ! as a friend used to say by way of 

 exclamation, when he missed an easy stroke at billiards, Mr. 

 Hopper did get wet that day. 



Once again on a rise of water another day did Mr. 

 Hopper find the bream at " Marshall's Parlour," and yet 

 again did he land some to keep him company in the boat. 

 "Marshall's Parlour" proved a productive swim on other 

 occasions. One morning Mr. Hopper landed eight varieties 

 of fish, to wit, dace, roach, perch, white bream, eels, flounders, 

 Tommy Ruff and pike ; all with worms as bait. The 

 dace caught in this swim were exceedingly fine fish, but 

 they did not quite equal in size seven dace which Mr. Hopper 

 caught last October a few miles out of Grimsby. Those seven 

 weighed 3! Ibs., and he had on the same occasion a dozen good 

 roach. 



At the time of penning these notes Mr. Hopper has 

 two days' angling in view one for gudgeon and one fly 

 fishing for grayling. In readiness for the latter he has got 

 down from London a dozen of the most beautiful grayling flies 

 ever seen, very small and beautifully set up. Mr. Hopper, in 

 pleasurable anticipation of these two days' outing, brings his 

 Notes to a close for the 1894 season, and bids all his angling 

 comrades good-bye until next year, wishing them one and 

 all good sport and plenty of it. 



