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September, several were taken by legitimate angling. | They 
measured 7} and 8 inches in length, shewing an increase in size 
for seven months’ growth, of five inches. 
Mr. Riley Fortune also furnishes the following details, 
remarking that it is, of course, practically impossible to make 
records of this kind except by the aid of anglers. 
The year 1910 will be remembered for a long time by the 
capture of two record River Trout in the county. The largest, 
weighing 10 lbs. 9 0z., was found in a dying state in April on the 
side of the Wharfe, above Ilkley. It was 2 feet 7 inches in 
length, and 16 inches in girth. 
Mr. H. B. Booth adds that this find caused a great sensation, 
the size being most extraordinary for so quick-running a river as 
the Wharfe, and that its presence had not been suspected by the 
local anglers, although they had previously spoken about two large 
trout being about; meaning, of course, fish of 3 or 4 lbs. weight- 
Mr. Fortune states that the other exceptionally large Trout 
was one captured on the 19th of December, 1909, when netting 
for Pike in the Driffield Beck ; its weight was Io lbs. 8 oz., its 
length 2 feet 3 inches, and its girth 19 inches. 
' A large example was also obtained on the Nidd, weighing 
53 Ibs., with a length of 2 feet 4 inches, and a girth of 12 inches. 
Another one in the Ure, taken at the end of Aug., weighed 44 lbs. 
Other extraordinary weights of freshwater fish may be 
summarised as follows — 
Perch, i lb. ro4 oz. Ryhill, August. 
Flounder. One. weighing 1 lb. I oz. Captured at 
Tadcaster, end’ of October. 
Barbel, 8 Ibs. 9 oz. The Ure, 26th August. 
Roach, r lb. 11 oz. - River Derwent, 13th March. 
Chub, 5 lbs. 52 oz. Yedingham, 15th October, and 5 lbs. 
4 oz., Nidd at Scottar, 5th November. 
Dace, 124 oz. In the Nidd, end of October. 
Bream, 5 lbs. River Derwent, 17th September. 
Grayling, 2 lbs. 6 oz. Yedingham, gth September; 2 lbs., 
Malton, 12th November. 
Of Pike, several extraordinary catches are recorded from 
Hornsea Mere. At the close of the 1909-10 coarse fishing season, 
a Hull man made a record catch. Six of his fish scaled 120 lbs., 
the two best fish weighing 24 and 224 lbs. respectively, and 
the smallest 17: lbs. Others caught on the gth March, 8 Pike, 
weighing 973 |bs., of which the largest was 18} Ibs.; on the 
11th March 9, of which the largest was 15} lbs.; on the 13th 
March 11, weighing 84 lbs., of which the largest was 18 lbs. ; 
on the 14th March 11, weighing 169 lbs., of which the largest was 
241 lbs. ; and on the same date, 3, weighing 33 lbs. A Pike was 
caught on the 12th March in the Derwent, below Kirkham Abtey, 
which weighed 23 lbs. 
Naturalist; 
