THE FIELD 
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lar fence months. No fbh ought to be taken before'the 14 th 
of March, nor after the 1 4th of September. I am perfectly 
aware that trout will rise at the fly or take the worm both 
earlier ancl later. I know, too, that there is a great difference 
in rivers as to the time when trout are fit to kill. In Devon- 
shire and Cornwall I am told they are a full fortnight or 
three weeks earlier than we are in Hampshire. Bright, 
rapid, gravelly streams are also more advanced than 
deep and sluggish waters. In Scotland 1 once took, in the 
River Rannoch, in Perthshire, ten brace of good fish, in high 
condition, on the last day of October. But still, I think as 
a general rule, If the two dates I have fixed on were commonly 
observed for the commencement and ending of trout-fishing, 
auglers, even if they found their periods of enjoyment were 
Somewhat curtailed, would find it more th.au compensated 
by the increased award of spoi't; and there would be no 
difficulty I think in framing, or any objection to, a law making 
it a misdemeanour for any one to kill trout during the 
prohibited time, to destroy the spawn, or to have trout in his 
possession. The penalty may be, in the first place, a pecu- 
niary fine, half to go to the informer ; a term of im- 
prisonment might be added for a second or subse- 
quent offence, with a good sound flogging for boys, if the 
court should think fit. But I would visit the offence of 
possession, either in the person offering for sale, purchasing, 
or otherwise, even more severely than I would that of taking 
the fish. “ If there were no receivers, there would be no 
thieves,” is an old adage. I have particularly specified a 
punishment for boys, because I know, from sad experience, 
the mischief done by them, especially in the neighbourhood 
of large towns. The female trout, about the time of 
Bpawning, and immediately after, is to be found in narrow, 
shallow, bright streams, and easily falls a victim to any little 
ragged urchin that happens to catch sight of her. The 
proprietors of the beautiful rivulets round the town of 
Newport, in the Isle of Wight, know, to their cost, what de- 
struction has been wrought by them, aided, I fear, by offenders 
of riper years, by whom the large reservoir, or mill-pond, 
which used to be full of the fiuest fish, has, of late years, been 
nearly depopulated. It would be also very desirable if some 
regulations, similar to those which have been adopted in the 
case of dealers in marine stores, could bo brought into 
operation, namely, that every fishmonger, or other person 
dealing in fish, purchasing anywhere but in market, 
should keep a book in which to enter tho name, date, &c., of 
the person from whom he bought, and other particulars, with 
a penalty for omitting to make such entry, giving a false name, 
or otherwise impeding the operation of the law. Similar 
rules might be also established in every market ; and a license 
to sell fish should also be necessary, such license, as in the 
case of game, to be duly registered, any person selling fish 
without a license to be subject to a penalty. I was told the 
other day, by one of the most intelligent officers in the Hants 
constabulary force, that in the course of his duty he con- 
stantly had occasion to search carts and suspected persons 
coming into Winchester, and had found, on search, from ten 
to thirty and forty brace of fine fish, which he knew must 
have been obtained unlawfully, but which he had no power 
to detain, or eveu to call on the possessor of them to account 
for their possession. For my own part, too, I should not 
object to the introduction into England of the system which 
has lately been tried in Ireland, namely, that no person 
should fish for trout or salmon without a license. The cost 
of obtaining the license might be almost nominal, but it 
would of course have to be registered. 
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THE NATURAL MINNOW. 
SIR, — Perhaps the following may not be uninteresting to 
some of your piscatorial readers. Being exceedingly fond of 
fishing, I have spent much time and labour on it. In fishing 
with the natural minnow, it had been my custom to thread 
them on the lead whilst they were still alive, adhering to an 
idea amongst most fishermen that fish will not take a natural 
miunow after it is dead, or has in any way been injured. I 
dare say after having caught a fish, or felt a bite, most of 
your readers have taken the bitten min now from tho hook, 
and have placed a fresh one on it. Now, from my experience, 
I have discovered that this idea is erroneous. It happened 
that I was one day fishing with the natural minnow, and had 
exhausted all my stock but one, which was dead, nor could 
I procure another. I then, as a last resort, placed on the 
dead one. Moreover, as was my custom, I added a little oil of 
oliganum, not that I think it attracts the fish, but takes away 
the smell of the hands, aud gives out a smell which may not 
be disagreeable to the fish. On casting the minnow, I did 
not, as is usual, “ bob” with it, but let it glide gently down 
the stream ; from the first hole that it passed a trout rushed 
forth aud seized it. I landed him and found that he had 
mauled the head of the minnow, which had slipped up the 
line. I replaced it in its proper position, and went again to 
work. I had not proceeded far, before another trout fell my 
prey. I again replaced the minnow, and once more fell to ; 
this time a diminutive urchin came forth, and, instead of 
hooking himself, bit the miunow in two parts, and escaped, 
rejoicing with the head. I would fain have gone on, but 
my ammunition was exhausted, and I could not fish with a 
plain hook. Since then, I have caught very many trout 
with dead and injured minnows, and I hope again next spring 
to continue my sport. I was using at the time, a bamboo 
rod, crick, and silk line, every thing in fact of the plainest. 
Ruro Peten's. 
The muddiest water can be rendered clear and pure as 
crystal, by mixing with it a small particle of pounded alum. 
The Wye Fisheries. — The salmon fishing this season iu 
the river Wye has proved extremely successful, aud the angler 
and fisherman have been rewarded with remarkably fine and 
healthy fish. It has been noticed that many large salmon 
have this summer been captured, and this no doubt is owing 
to the careful manner in which the waters are preserved from 
wholesale poaching. The Wye associations have determined 
to prosecute all parties discovered laying out lines either in 
the Wye or the Lugg. A salmon was captured the other day, 
weighing upwards of 30lb., and more than a yard in length. 
In the Severn the fishing has also been very good, and the 
fish in fine condition. 
A Slight Mistake. — A sailor who could not read lately 
appeared at the naval rendezvous at Greenock, who, in 
answer to one of several questions put to him, said he had an 
an excellent written character, which he was proud of, and, 
in proof of his assertion, hauded the following document to 
the officer I hereby certify that , sailor, was admitted 
mte the — — - Infirmary for delirium tremens, on June 23, 
and is discharged well this day (June 30, 1854). 
igned, , House-surgeon." — Edinburgh Vaurant. 
CLUB MEETINGS, 1834. 
October 5. — Meeting of tho Loudon Model Yacht Club, at Anderton s 
I Intel 
October 3. — Mooting of tho Royal Mersey Yacht Club, at tho Marino 
Station. 
October 4. — First Monthly Meeting of the H. T. Y. C. since July 5. 
October I. — Meeting of the Lilley Club, at tho Nell Gwynno. 
October 6. — Meeting of tho Prince of Wales Club, at tho Freemasons' 
Tavern. 
October 7.— Meeting of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, 
October 10. — Meeting of tho Anglesey Club. 
October 1(1. — Meeting of tho Royal London YachtClub.at tho Caledonian 
Hotel, Adel|ihi. 
November 7 — Meeting of tho Royal Mersey Yacht Chib, at tho Club- 
house, Duke-street. 
November 93.— Annual Dinner of tho Royal London Yacht Club. 
December 1. — Monthly Meeting of tho Prince of Wales Yacht Club. 
December 2. — Monthly Mooting of tho Royal Harwich Yacht Club. 
December 5. — Monthly Mooting of tho Royal Mersey Yacht Club. 
December &, — Monthly Meeting of tho London Model Yacht Club, at 
Anderton's. 
December 8. — Weekly Meeting of tho Lilley Club, at tho Nell G Wynne, 
at 8 p.m. 
December G. — Monthly Mooting of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, at the 
Bedford Hotel, Covent Garden. 
December 18. — Monthly Mooting of tho Royal London Yacht Club. 
SAILING MATCHES AND CLUB REGATTAS, &c. 
October 7. — Avalon, Poarl, and other yachts of the Royal London Yacht 
Club, to start from liluckwnll Pier at 4 p.m., convoying members to 
Erith, this being tho day for the annual “ closing trip " and dinner at 
the Crown. Blue-eyed Maid, &c., will join company at Blaokwall. 
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE— Sept. 28. 
Arrivals. — Sept. 22. Fairy, schooner, Marquis of Conyngham, from 
Ireland, and came into harbour to lay up. — 23. Derwent, schooner, 
M..E. Hoare, Esq., Rydc and other ports. 
Sailings. — Sept 22. Titonla, schooner, Robert Stephenson, Esq., 
for Newcastle. — 2C. Miranda, yawl, John Gray, Esq., for Madeira. 
Yachts at and about the Station. — Nymph, Aurora, Arrow, 
Cygnet, Virginia, Derwent, 
Schooner-yacht Novice. — This flag-yacht left Holyhead yesterday 
week (Friday), at noon, and arrived in Portsmouth harbour on Monday, 
at seven in tho morning, having made her passage, tho distanco being 
about 400 miles, in less than sixty hours. Novice loft tho sclioonor- 
yacht Shark at Holyhead, but some throe hours before eho got umlor 
weigh, the Princess Olga and Enchantress had started for tho English 
Channel. 
nursery for seamen, but for tho improvement and skill of our »hip- 
buildcrs, render* It deslrablo that they should not bo without some 
standing record of the manly, exciting, and interesting regattas which 
they bring before the public in tho yachting season. 
Tlio Yachting Mngailnc will bo a periodical devoted to ail subjects 
connected with yachting, and will lie chiefly contributed to by dis- 
tinguished yachtsmen, containing a full account of tho annual regattas 
in Die United Kingdom, with a description of tho splendid cups and 
other prlsos 0 (fared far competition ; minutes of commlttoo meetings, 
If officially transmitted through tho secretaries! Improvement* in 
yacht and boat building, several uscflil tables, with a complete list of all 
tho yaohta belonging to tho Royal Yaoht Clubs, with ownor, builder, 
tonnage, Ac., Ac.; sketches of yachting character*, commencing with 
tho lato much esteemed Commodore of tho H. Y. S. tho Earl of Yar- 
borough ; a full account of tho Thames, Oxford, and Cambridge boat 
races, &e„ Ac. ; thus forming a complete register of tho yearly pro- 
ceedings of the Royal Yacht Club* and a work of refarenoo at any 
period, supplying a desideratum long required by the nautical public. 
Tho Yachting Magsxlno will also be a useful advertising medium far 
all matters relative to the disposal and purehaso of Yachting property, 
and i>e published quarterly (demy octavo, price three shillings), in tho 
first week of March, June, September, and December; but, owing to 
tho very limited time now left for the preparation of tho first number, 
it will not appear until the 1st of July. The publisher respectfully 
solicits tho support of yachting gontlcinon, and will 1* glml to rocetvo 
original article* and correspondence connected with the suQuct* advo- 
cated In this periodical, not less than faurtcen days provtoiu^to tho thno 
of publishing. Orders for tho work will bo received by him, and at the 
dllYorcnt Royal Yacht Club Houses, where registers for names of sub- 
scribers are oponod. 
I.ymlngton : Published by R. A. Grove, marine publisher and print- 
sollcr by appointment to tho Queen. 
it o,i. 1817. 
Tiif. Medway Yacht Club. — C hatham, 23rd Sept.— Lout 
ovoniug, at Iim-ilown, Comiuodoro Robinson struck hi* 
broad pendant on board the " Vixen" for tho season. 
Death of Mu. Farley. — We rogrot to have to rocord that 
this well-known builder of yacht-models expired at his house 
in Fleet street on Friday morning (yesterday), at half punt; 
twelve, after having suffered with great resignation tho attack 
of a most painful complaint, which for many weeks confined 
him to his bod. l ie leaves a widow and ouo son, who will carry 
on tho business, and in this urgent owiO it iu to ho hoped 
yachtsmen will 1 continue their patronage, especially as under 
tho very same roof the sale of boat-models has been carried 
on for moro than a contury. 
Breeze and Masskna. — Wo loam from tho Washington 
Daily Star that a moo took place at Ohl Point on Saturday, 
the 22nd ult., between tho yachts Breeze, of James River, and 
tho Massena, of Now York. Tho latter was beaten ninetoaii 
minutes iu a distanco of forty-one miles . — New York Paper. 
ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. 
The first monthly meeting of tho club since July 6th 
will bo held at tho Bedford Hotel, Coveut-garden, on 
Wednesday evening, tho 4th of October, at half-past 
eight o’clock precisely. The following gentlemen will be 
balloted for : — Granville Sharpe, Esq., Alfred Club ; Henry 
B. Allenby, Esq., Tadcaster, Yorkshire; Robert Howett, 
Esq., Barking, Essex ; Joseph Reynolds, Esq., De la Bere, 
Berks ; Henry Dewsbury, Esq., Dymoke-lodge, Oval-road, 
Regent’s-park ; Robert Bryce Hay, Esq., Army and Navy 
Club; Henry Robinson, Esq., 5, Canterbury -villas, Maida- 
hill; John Kirby, Esq., St. Osyth, ; Essex Marshall Paine, 
Esq., Acacia-road, St. John’s- wood ; William Upward, Esq., 
Carlton-road, St. John’s-wood; and Leeds Paine, Esq., Stock 
Exchange. Members and their friends who intend to dine 
at the monthly club dinner, on Wednesday the 4th of October, 
should enter their names in the house book on or before two 
o’clock on that day. Each member may introduce one friend. 
Dinner at six o’clock precisely. Wo may mention, for the 
convenience of new members, that the secretary, Capt. P. C. 
Stuart Grant, attends at the club-rooms on Mondays, 
Wednesdays, and Fridays, from two to five o’clock, p.m., to 
receive subscriptions, give information, & c. Tho fourteen 
following club yachts are for sale : — Zophyretta (sohooner), 
180 tons ; Lily of the Test (ditto), 01 ; Vestal (ditto), 75; 
Intrepid (cutter), CO; Guerilla (ditto), 45 ; Streamlet (ditto), 
30 ; Cygnet (ditto), 35; Pauline (ditto). 35 ; Daring (ditto), 
31 ; Secret (ditto), 25 ; Daisy (ditto), 18; Sunbeam, (ditto), 
18 ; Diavolo (ditto), 15 ; Curlew (yawl, for gunning), 10. 
Applications for particulars should be addressed to tho 
secretary, at the Bedford Hotel, Coveut-garden. 
YACHTING LITERATURE. 
We have recently received many applications for informa- 
tion, and to decide beta, on the subject of yachting magazines ; 
and the private replies we have given having, iu several 
instances, failed to convince the inquirers that tho idea of 
starting a yachting magazine is not a novelty — iu fact* that 
such periodicals were contemplated long before those at 
present existing — we have now simply to repeat that we 
know our opinion to be correct, aud that, iu proof of its 
being so, at least two instances of yachting publications, prior 
to Hunt’s and Bonner's, can be mentioned, viz., that of the 
Regatta Register, which appeared, monthly, in 1836 (now 
eighteen years ago), and Grove's Yachting Magazine. We 
here subjoin a copy of the prospectus, issued in May, 1347, 
in regard to the latter. The green cover of tho former is 
still to be seen in p/. vny a club library. 
Price Three Shillings, 
THE YACHTING .MAGAZINE AND ROYAL YACHT CLUB 
GAZETTE. 
" Yachting has ber-i wb’ly fostered by our sovereign*, who have 
felt that the security of kingdoms is iuurvased by every man being, more 
or less, a sailor.” — Capo; in Manqat. it. N. 
The national importance which the Royal Yacht Club* throughout 
the kingdom may justly said to assume, not only a* a valuable 
MATCHES APPOINTED. 
September 30. — Mr .1 B. M'Nell and Mr. R. Bold of Glasgow, to row 
two and u half or threo miles, for £50 a side. 
October 2. — M'Cnrtliy and Shean, to row from Putney to Mortlalco, for 
£10 a side. 
October I. — T. Pocoolc and F. Stylos, to row from Putnoy to Mortlnko, 
tor £25 a side. 
October 9. — It. Wharf anil J. Synnett, to row from Old llsrgo House, 
Woolwich, to Llincliounc Hole, for .£20 a side. 
October 19. — O. Robbins, of Battlo Bridge, and R. Savago, of Ilorsloy- 
down, to row from Putnoy to Mortlnko far £'ib a side. 
October 23, — W. Money, of Putney, and J. Rolls, of Christchurch, to 
row from tho Pier at Putnoy to the ship at Morllnke, for 20 guinea* 
a sido. 
October 25. — G. Robbins and R. Savage (bolow-brldgo men), to row from 
Putnoy to Mortlako, for £25 a side. 
November 20. — T. Colo (tho Champion of tho Thame*) and J. Mes- 
senger, of Teddlngton, to row from Putney to Mortlako, for £200 a 
side. 
November . — Robert Newell and William Pococlt, to row (torn Putnoy 
Bridgo to tho Ship at Mortluko, for £.'6 a side. 
«. 
TIIE NELEUS CLUB. 
Tho Nelcus Club rowed their sooond pair-oarod raco of tho 
season on Monthly, for a .scries of presentation prizes, addod 
to silver challenge cups. Tho regatta was at Mortlako, anti 
tho Curlew steamer, which had been engaged for tho accom- 
modation of members and their friends, accompanied tho 
several heats, with a highly respectable party, including a 
great number of ladies, on board. 
first beat. 
II. Porter and J. Curling Whlto 1 
D. Calm and T. Itupor Orange 2 
A. Hamm and N. 8wtuuon Pink 0 
Tho course was from tho Parsonage round a boat off Barker's 
rails, returning by the Surrey shore round a boat off tho 
Parsonage, and finish nt Mr. K. Godfrey’s, tho Queen’s Head, 
whicli was, as usual, head-quarters for tho party. After a 
few strokes the winners began to draw a head, but tho other 
party hung close together for some distance. 
SECOND HEAT. 
II. Harris anil T. Cuvanagb Red I 
J. Cairn ami J. Roberta Green 2 
It was a walk over, thus leaving tho two first pairs in tho 
first heat and tho two last-named to contend, J. Korku and 
W. Branscotube, who were the holders of tho cliallcugo cups. 
FINAL HEAT. 
J. Rorko and W. Dranscombo Biuo 1 
I>. Culm and T Kapur Orango 2 
II. Porter and J. Curling Whlto 3 
A good start was effected, white taking a alight lead, shortly 
after which blue and yellow cam© close together, but not so 
near ns to constitute a decided foul. Then a most exciting 
race followed between them until blue wont ahead, and, after 
challenging white, overhauled them. Orange now collared 
white, and another gallant race followed between this pair 
to the finish, who almost made a dead heat of it, blue being 
four or five lengths ahead. By this second victory Rorko 
and Branscombe became the absolute owners of tho clips. 
COSTUME FOR LADY-ROWERS. < 
Sir, — I n your account last week of tho Clew BajrRogptto, 
you gave an account of a boat-race by women, ^oyr, in a 
forthcoming regutta in this neighbourhood we havo decided 
on a similar race, and the fair competitors have requested 
me to ask if you will kindly give them a description of tho 
dress worn by their sister aquatics, and even if yqu could 
extend your gallantry so far as to insert a sketch vf itviu 
your next number, which will give them time to prepare 
accordingly. I am Sir, your obedient servant. 
One op the Committee. 
[A letter to tho R.W.Y.C. Plymouth, would obtain the 
costume of tho Sultuah ladies.-— Ed. J ___ 
