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has fine salmon and trout, and is a particularly pleasant 

 stream to fish with the fly. 



The Ehen rises out of the mountain range in the 

 neighbourhood of Borrowdale, and is about twenty miles 

 in length. It forms Ennerdale Lake, and then flows 

 on, passes Egremont, and reaches the waters of the 

 Solway Firth. Trolling is now very generally adopted 

 by anglers who frequent this stream. The flies that 

 will suit the Eden will answer very well for this river. 



The Derwent springs from the vicinity of the hills 

 near Borrowdale, and after winding through some rugged 

 and sublime mountain districts, full of wild grandeur 

 and impressive desolation, it forms the lake that bears 

 its name, at the mouth of which stands the town of 

 Keswick. This is a good starting-point for the angler, 

 inasmuch as it commands a ready access to many fine 

 trouting waters. The river runs past the town of 

 Cockermouth, and falls into the Irish Sea, near the 

 small town of Workington. The whole of its range will 

 be fully thirty mUes. The fishing in the Derwent is 

 often very uncertain. The finny tribes seem to take 

 capricious fits of abstinence, for nothing in the shape of 

 bait will induce them to move. We cannot account for 

 these odd humours, nor have we ever heard or read of 

 anyone that could. 



The Greta is formed by two small rivulets, which 

 spring out of the lofty district of Saddleworth. These 

 united waters pass Keswick, and fall into the Derwent. 

 In the early part of the season, and during the summer, 

 after rains, there is capital trouting in the Greta, and 

 very fiuae trout they are. The palmer-flies seem to be 

 great favourites with the local anglers of these streams. 



The Cocker has a mountain source ; and, after rains, 

 comes down with great impetuosity, sweeping everything 

 before it. It flows through the lakes of Buttermere and 

 Crummock, dividing the beautiful vale of Lorton. The 

 trout rim. generally small, but occasionally there are 

 some taken of more than average size. 



The Ellen springs out of Coldbeck Fells, and has 

 several small tributaries in which tourists often fish with 



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