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refreshments. Sometimes rod-fishers succeed in taking 

 away five-and-twenty or thirty pounds weight of fish. 

 The names of these waters are Willow Vale Fishery, 

 Victoria Fishery, and the Star Fisliery. The ordinary 

 charge is one shilling a day. 



The Kingsbury Fishery is considered a very good one. 

 The subscription is one guinea annually ; and the 

 following are some of the chief regulations of the 

 establishment. Wo day tickets are allowed ; no member's 

 ticket is transferable ; every member must produce his 

 ticket when demanded ; one friend to be iutroduced by 

 a member ; the member to use only two rods, whether 

 alone or accompanied by a' friend; the season to 

 commence on the 1st of May, and to end on the last 

 day of February for perch ; no live or dead bait to be 

 used before the 1st of June; jack-fishing from the 

 1st of June to the last day of February ; no member to 

 use a trimmer, peg-line, lay-line, or net, except a landing 

 or keep net. 



We have now entered as fully into a description of 

 those places suitable to the London angler's pursuits as 

 we have been able. "We feel somewhat con£dent that 

 he will find our remarks and instructions of some use. 

 We must now proceed to more distant localities, and 

 descant upon those fishing waters adapted for another 

 class of anglers — those who aim at the capture of the 

 salmon, the trout, and the pike. 



It is requisite to premise, that in directing the rod- 

 fisher tohere to go over the varied extent of fishing 

 waters in England and Wales, our observations and 

 descriptions must necessarily be of a very general cast. 

 We cannot descant at any length on many interesting 

 sections of river scenery, admirably fitted to impart to 

 the intellectual angler the most lively and delicate 

 pleasures. So far, however, as the higher branches of 

 the anghng art are concerned, we shall make a point of 

 dwelling, with as much minuteness as possible, upon 

 those places where really good fly-fishing may be readily 

 obtained, and where the sportsman will find pleasure 

 and improvement in passing through them. Large 



