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sends from the nearest station to Manchester, Sheffield, and 

 other large towns where there is a large Jewish population, 

 amongst whom ready purchasers of fresh-water fish are found. 

 Mr. Hopper ascertained that on one occasion last winter 12 c\vt. 

 of fish were despatched on one day from the station nearest to 

 where he spends his usual summer holiday, and on several other 

 occasions he saw in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph accounts of 

 cwts. of fish being caught in the manner described and sent off 

 to the two towns named. 



All that the netters have to do is to obtain the consent of the 

 adjoining land owners to their netting. No licence is required 

 to be taken out except for salmon netting. The result is that 

 the supply of store fish is gradually being depleted, and rod 

 fishing suffers year by year. Rod fishing would never of itself 

 injure the river, which is too great in extent, and in the lower 

 reaches say below Newark, is not fished to any great extent. 

 Of course there are a few Saturday and Sunday anglers from 

 Sheffield and Lincoln, but on other days one may walk for 

 miles on the banks without coming across a single angler. So 

 blow the netting. 



Neither bream nor barbel were really well on during 

 McNab's and Mr. Hopper's visit. What barbel were caught 

 were mostly over 4lbs. yi weight, the largest 4! Ibs., falling to 

 the rod of Mr. Hopper. Several of 4ilbs. were landed, and, it 

 should be added, each angler lost some good fish. Bream 

 never came on as they should have done. Mazawattee joined 

 McNab and Mr. Hopper during the last days of their visit. 

 The day previous to his coming 22lbs. of bream had been caught, 

 largest 3ilbs., and on the following day 37 libs, weight was 

 landed, making 59ilbs. in two days. Then the weather began 

 to break up and violent winds made it very difficult to fish 

 properly, but still a few nice bream were caught, and also some 

 good sized eels, one very large one being lost by Mr. Hopper. 



Roach were dead off, but it is little use fishing for roach 

 before September in the Trent; one day McNab and Mr. 

 Hopper caught ten different varieties of fish. Flounders are 

 getting very scarce, and gudgeon seem few and far between. 



