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point, ten miles from the sea. Here, as the tidal current is 

 strong, legering is more suitable than float-fishing. 



Sbmerleyton, two miles further up the river, is noted for its 

 large bream. A few miles further is a wide dyke or canal 

 leading on to Oulton Broad, and both in the dyke and on the 

 broad there is good fishing for bream, roach, and pike. From 

 Oulton Dyke the Waveney up to Beccles is a splendid river, 

 broad, deep, and clear. This river used to be noted for its 

 perch, but perch do not seem to be so plentiful in the Broad 

 district as they formerly were. 



All the rivers converge and run into the sea through 

 Yarmouth Haven, and proceeding up the Bure, locally called 

 the North River, we find a tide so strong that there is not much 

 fishing for some miles up. In fact the first easily accessible 

 fishing-station is at Acle, twelve miles up the river, where good 

 catches of bream are often made. Above Acle good fish- 

 ing may be got in almost every reach. At the mouth of 

 the Thurne is a good spot for pike, and the Thurne River, 

 which flows from Hickling Broad, Horsey Mere, and Somerton 

 Broad, is a nice clear stream containing plenty of pike, and has 

 a fishing length of about six miles. 



Proceeding further up the Thurne, past St Benedict's Abbey, 

 we come to the river Ant, a tortuous and canal-like stream, 

 leading through Barton Broad to Stalham and North Walsham. 



Continuing up the Bure, and passing South Walsham and 

 Ranworth Broads, the fishing on which is private, we come to 

 a favourite fishing-station, Horning Ferry ; and from here up 

 to Wroxhara, some nine miles, is good pike ground. The water 

 is shallower and less affected by the tide, also much clearer. 

 Many Broads are connected with this portion of the river by 

 short dykes, and these Broads serve as spawning-grounds and 

 nurseries for the fish, and keep the river constantly replenished. 



Such is a brief sketch of the extent of these happy hunting 

 grounds for anglers for coarse fish. For greater details the 

 reader is referred to a handbook and chart published by 

 Jarrold and Sons, of Norwich. 



