February 11, 1893] 
SUPPLEMENT TO THE FISHING GAZETTE 
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Iioddou (Earley). —River in very good condition, 
and some sport has been had this last few days, with good 
takes of roach, chub, and jack. Should the weather still 
continue as mild as at present there ought to be plenty of 
sport had.—J. E. Gould. 
ZiTigg and Arrow (Leominster).— Both these 
streams have been visited with more rain, and the 
water has been quite out of fishing order. It is now 
going down and should be in fishing order by Saturday. 
Bottom fishing will prove the most successful. Anglers 
have been scarce on the banks, and little will be done 
until trout fishing begins, when good sport is looked 
forward to. The Pinsley is clear and in order. Nothing 
done in it.—GW ynne. 
Lugg, Arrow, and Pinsley (Kingsland).— 
Although sufficiently clear, these rivers are yet too high, 
and sink but very slowly. Should the weather keep 
fairly fine, there may be a chance with sink and draw, 
worm or maggot, the beginning of coming week. Gray- 
ling are very forward for spawning, whilst trout are 
gaining condition fast. The season for the latter opens 
March 2.—R. T. 'Williams. 
Medway (Maidstone). —The water is still running 
very thick, but the bream fishers have been having 
good sport. Cannot hear of any pike being taken. If 
the w'ater should clear, pike would feed well. — W. 
Shrubsole. 
Ouse and Derwent (Yorks).— Several nice catches 
•of roach and dace have been made, both in the Ouse and 
Derwent, during the past few days. Messrs. Parker and 
\\ alton have shown some very fine samples. Pike fisher¬ 
men are having fairly good sport in the Derwent and 
Pocklington Canal waters, but nothing has been taken 
of any size worth recording.— Ronald. 
Ouse (Huntingdon).— The time this is in print the 
backwaters will be in fishing order, but I don’t think the 
river will be for a few more days if we don’t have any 
heavy rains to spoil it. The jack have had a long rest— 
■or rather the fisherman—but, as soon as the water is in 
trim, sport ought to be good, for nothing important has 
been done since Christmas when the water was in order, 
then frost set in, followed by floods. The locals have 
been roaohing in the eddies and have taken some good 
fish. One local took a fine roach on the 7th, weighing 
21b. 2Joz., and good jack ought to be taken at this time 
of the season. No time should be lost, as the eeason is 
drawing to an end.—H. Rout. 
Ouse (OiFord). —Water is now in good condition 
for jack fishing, and, as it has only been fished tw'o or 
three days for jack this season, I think, there is every 
prospect of good sport.— Collins. 
Penzance, Cornwall.— Mullet are showing up in 
the bay, and our boats are ready to start for Plymouth 
for the spring mackerel fishing. 
Scarborough.— Sea Fishing.— Some good-sized 
rook cod have been taken by boat anglers during the 
past week. Haddock appear to have left the bay. Billet 
and fiat fish are scarce, but a good number of rock fish 
have been hooked a few miles south of Scarborough. 
Severn (Shrewsbury).— Pike fi.shers have had 
abundant opportunities of sport during the week, and 
the streams could not be in better condition for the 
live bait. Several good fish have been taken, including 
two pike of 121b. and 81b. respectively, captured at 
Shrawardine, by Littlehales. Bottom fishers should 
have a good time during the next week or so — 
PiSCATOR. 
Severn, Vyrnwy, Tanat, and Cain (Llanymy- 
nech). —The rain last week fortunately ceased in time 
to prevent a serious flood, but all these rivers became 
much swollen, especially the Tanat, which was greatly 
flooded near its junction with the Vyrnwy. At present 
little is doing in the way of angling, as the rivers have 
not yet recovered their proper level and condition, but 
they will do so in a very few days, unless we have more 
rain, which appears rather probable, as the weather is 
now unsettled.—V yrnwy. 
Stour (Bures). —The water is in prime order, and 
the roach have been biting freely. On Wednesday some 
splendid takes were had, Mr. Bainbridge heading the 
ist with 231b. of good fish.— Goosequill. 
Sussex Rivers.— The recent mild weather has had 
a beneficial effect on piscatorial operations. Rivers 
have fined down, and fish are feeding much better, yet 
seldom have I seen so few anglers on the bank side. 
Reports from the Arun are meagre, a tew bream and 
roach and a small pike from the Pulborough district, and 
from the Blackrabbit a few good roach. Pike have been 
taken from the Eother, near Selham, and paternoster- 
iDg with gudgeon has proved the most successful; SJlb. 
IS the heaviest fish notified, and I hear that a few fish 
have been taken near Pittleworth. The Ouse has bean 
better patronised, and some good roach and chub are 
notified me from the upper water. Bream are feeding 
better at Chichester Canal, but the heavy' fish of a few 
Jasons past seem to fight shy. The accident to Mr. 
Percy Mary'on Wilson, of Searles Fletching, which we 
recorded a fortnight since, has, we regret to hear, proved 
fatal.— George F. Salter. 
Taw (North, Devon). —The rivers are high and 
getting higher. Some few gentlemen were about this 
week; one got three dozen last week on the Cutclip’s 
R- sot twenty one day and seventeen another; 
Mr. Finch took two brace after toiling all day; your 
■correspondent took two dozen in the warm part of the 
^y. and the fish were in remarkably good condition. 
iJoes any reader know of the address of a Mr. Daniel, 
who once lived at Tiverton, North Devon, kindly send it 
‘“the editor for me.— Rusty Game. 
Teme (Ludlow). —The Teme in this part has been 
running very high and muddy, owing to the heavy fall 
01 ram at the end of last week, but it has run off 
quickly, and is now getting into good order for fishing. 
The weather has been mild and suitable for anglers to 
got out, but little fishing has been done. The fish have 
been on the feed. Pike are moving well. The best 
baits at present are the maggot and grasshopper. Gray¬ 
ling are very quiet, and little has been done with them 
for some time. Sport will be dull until the trout come 
in on March 2, and there is every prospect of a good 
season, as there are plenty of fish in the water. The 
Oay,^ Corve, Clun, and Ledwyohe are all in fair order. 
No fishing done in them. Prospects for trout in the 
Corve, good.—S. Ludlow. 
Teme (Tenbury).— The water in this dictrict was 
just getting into nice order, when a heavy fall of rain 
caused the river to rise. It is now going down, and the 
weather has been fine and suitable for anglers to get out; 
and sport with the maggot and grasshopper should be 
had by the end of the week. Angling has been very 
quiet of late. The Red Kyre and Ledwyche are quiet. 
—'Worcester. 
Torridge (Torrington).— Mr. Doe took fifteen 
trout with the fly on Tuesday last, and put back a lot of 
small ones. He also landed a salmon with a trout fly. I 
dressed his cast with three flies—Red, Blue, and Brown. 
We have had a quantity of rain since, and a mild rain 
is falling. At present this keeps the river very full, and 
will bring up a lot of salmon.— Practical Angler. 
Usk (at Usk). —The mild genial weather the past 
fortnight has brought the fly out on the water, and trout 
have been noticed to take them freely. The season for 
trout angling opens on Wednesday, and there is every 
reason to believe that good sport will be had. Several 
floods, not of very large dimensions, have taken place, 
and these have removed vast numbers of kelts to the 
sea. 
Welland (Lincolnshire).— The ice king has almost 
entirely left this river, and pike fishing is once more 
being resumed all along the stream. This river and the 
Guash were, some few months ago, regularly swarmed 
with otters, but the cold weather we have experienced 
this winter has evidently had the effect of keeping 
them from the fish. There can be no doubt in my mind 
but what otters as a rule consume, or, I should say 
destroy, quite their own weight in fish pretty well every 
day, and one only had to take a walk along this river 
for a mile or two last summer to see the great damage 
which was being done to the roach and other members 
of the finny tribe. The other w-eek a fine specimen, appa¬ 
rently driven from its usual haunts by the weather, 
made its way into the centre of Bungay Park, and soon 
began to explore Lord Exeter’s trout breeding ponds, 
which are situated there, and which contain some grand 
trout. Master Otter, fortunately, was detected in the 
very act of plundering the stream, by Mr. Silk, the 
eminent pisciculturist, and its unlawful proceedings 
were quickly brought to an end. It was found to be 
3 feet 5 inches in length. An excellent specimen of the 
bittern (Botaurus stellaris) has recently been captured 
in Grimsthorpe Park, Lines. ; this bird, which was once 
very often met with in the Fens of Lincolnshire, is now 
exceedingly rare.—J. E. W. 
Yare (Norwich).— Owing to the long-continued 
severe frosts which set in the day before Christmas, my 
chances of sending any fishing items were rendered nil 
until last week, when my contribution was late, so I will 
somewhat repeat, by telling your readers that the past 
fortnight has brought a complete change. The first days 
of last week were warm and springlike, and the ice 
rapidly disappeared, so that once again our ice-bound 
rivers and broads were open, and the skater found no 
resting place for his steel runner, and our trim-built 
wherries, &c., were enabled to navigate, whilst anglers 
all rejoice that better prospects have come for their par¬ 
ticular recreation. A few wind frosts have occurred at 
night, but vanished early in the morning, and this week 
a deal of rain has fallen, but I think that will do good to 
all our waters, which should be getting into good condi¬ 
tion for jack fishing. The time left is very short, so 
good use must be made of any leaves obtained, and I 
trust before our close time for this fish, to be able to 
report numerous captures of some mature and portly 
dames and gents, whose appetites have at last led to 
supplying food or decorating some club room—a ghost 
of their former lively selves. Some good bream have 
been caught in the vicinity of Thorpe, near Norwich, 
and some good roach on the tVensum (six fish weighed 
upwards of 81b ).— Robert Moll. 
Scotch Reports. 
Burnham Hotel (Dunkeld).— On Friday, Feb. 3, 
Admiral Walker landed a splendid salmon, 181b., on 
Murthly water, and Mrs. Henry Douglas one on Stenton, 
20Jlb. On Monday, Feb. C, Admiral Walker, one sal¬ 
mon weighing 241b. on Murthly, and Mr. Henry Douglas 
caught one salmon, 221b., on Stenton. 
Dee, Don, &c. — Everything portends a most auspi¬ 
cious opening of the angling season on the Dee, 
Don, and other Northern rivers to-day, Saturday, the 
11th. Finer running waters have not been experienced 
for many years back at this season of the year, and, 
although fish may not be found as plentifully as could 
be desired far inland, owing to the late protracted spell 
of frost, yet on the middle and lower sections the pools 
will be well stocked. There is already a good head of 
fish in the Dee, and daily this is being aug¬ 
mented. The prospects on the whole are most 
encouraging, and, unless the weather takes an 
unlooked for turn for the worse, good sport 
may confidently be anticipated on the opening days. 
For the past eight or ten days the spawning beds on the 
middle and lower reaches of the Dee have been again 
fully occupied with the late fish, whose operations were 
either prevented or cut short by the long protracted 
spell of frost which set in .vith the advent of December. 
R8,rper, keeper. Dee, counted ten pairs of spawners, 
all heavy fish, one day last week, all within fifty yards 
of each other. The same late spawning has not been 
observed since 1881. The weather and water are 
especially favourable for spawning operations, and in 
the course of a few days now', these will have been 
successfully' completed. Mr. Bristowe will fish the 
Invercauld Arms Dee water during February and 
March; Lord D’Arcy Osborne, the Cambus O’Mav 
water; Sir William Brooks, Bart., and friends, 
the Glen stretches; Mr. Sandison. the Aboyne and 
Upper Dess water; Capt. D. F. Davidson, the Lower 
Dess; Mr. Lamond, the Kincardine Lodge section • 
Mr. Tenant, the Carlogie; Mr. E. Drummond, the 
Ballogie waters; Mr. Deverell, the Woodend water; 
Mr. T. Turner Farly, the Cairnton section; Mr. Barbour’ 
the Inchmarlo and Kineskie waters; Mr. Mann, the 
Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, the Lower Crathes; Mr. Baird, 
the Durris water ; and Mr. Irvine, the Drum section’ 
&c. Sir Herbert Lewis and Mr. Wormold, lessees 
of the Borrowstone Dee fishings, have also taken the 
Commonty water for the first two months of the 
season. A farm servant was fined .£1 lOs., including 
expenses, or seven days in prison, for having a salmon 
spear in his possession on Sunday last on the south 
bank of the Dee ; while another poacher w'as mulcted 
37s. Od. for ta'Ring a foul salmon from the Don.— 
Deesider. 
Deveron (Banflfshire).— The opening of the fishings 
on the Deveron and adjacent sea coast, which takes 
place to-day (Saturday), are fairly encouraging, not¬ 
withstanding the severe winter. As it is some time 
since the snow had disappeared from among the hills in 
the upper district of the river, the water during the past 
week has considerably fallen, and is of not so dark a 
hue. Its temperature has been very low'; frost at times 
is very keen, and newly-run fish are not so plentiful on 
the lower sections as expected. However, the river is 
now quite clear of ice, and, with fresh showers of rain, 
prospects will brighten. A considerable number of late 
fish are still spawning on the beds in the lower part of 
the river, no doubt many of whom will be captured with 
the nets. The heavy spates in the winter quite cleared the 
river of any' debris that had lodged during the summer in 
its course ; and the newly-spaw'ned fish had no obstacle, 
except lice for a short time, in preventing them from 
reaching the sea. Report has it that fish are numerous 
at the entrance to the river, but as the water is rather 
shallow on the river betw'een the estuary and the deeper 
pools, there will be little upward migration until there 
is a spate. Fish are reported to be clean and healthy, 
and, unless disease breaks out among the older fish, so 
late in spawning, the number of dead fish taken from 
the river this year will be very small compared with 
previous seasons.—H. W. 
Helmsdale (Helmsdale).— The past w'eek's angling 
here, I opine, has pretty plainly demonstrated the truth 
of my opinion that very few' salmon had gone up this 
river, either in the months of December or January'. 
Ever since this water w'as opened for salmon angling on 
Jan. 11, instead of Feb. 11, the sport obtained in the 
former month has been unworthy of the name, while 
that obtained in the early days of February could only 
be described as poor, so that in altering‘the day' of 
opening, and thereby closing the river a month earlier, 
sportsmen have evidently lost more than they are likely 
to gain by the change. Doubtless, as I attempted to 
explain in previous notes, the long spell of severe 
weather has something to do with the matter, but it has 
not all to do with it. For a number of year.s long ago 
this river was open to anglers on the date it is now, but 
as time rolled on, it became clear to the then lessees 
that the date was too early, and it w'as changed 
to Feb. 11, at which date it remained for a long time, 
until three years ago, when the present date was fixed 
once more, and that it has done no good, must now' be 
clear to all those interested. The w'eek’s record is a 
poor one, but I give it in detail for obvious reasons on 
this occasion. Tuesday, the 24th ult., was a very wet 
day, but several boats were in good order, but the three 
anglers out got nothing. 'Wednesday' w'as a fair angling 
day, and of the three anglers out, Mr. Congreve alone 
was successful, getting a nice salmon of 181b. on No. 4 
(Kildenar). Thursday was again wet, and nothing w'as 
got by fair anglers. Friday was a good day', but again 
all the anglers were blank. Saturday was an excellent 
fishing day, and Mr. Richard Rutherford on No. (5 got a 
fine salmon of 201b. Monday was to all appearance a 
good angling day, but four anglers failed to get 
a single fish. Tuesday' was the finest day' of the 
season, but up to the closing of my report I have only' 
heard of one capture, and, if this be so, this leaves the 
number of salmon got in January' four, being the same 
number as was got in 1892. Some trout fishers have 
been out and are getting a fe'w brown trout, some of 
which are in fair condition. Sea fishing has improved, a 
good many' herrings of excellent quality having been 
landed last week.—S. C. 
Kenmore (Locli.Tay).— Feb. 2, Mr. Aitkin, Letter- 
allan caught a salmon, 341b.; 3rd, on the reserved 
water, Robson, the keeper, caught a salmon, 171b.; 4th, 
on the hotel water, Blr. Knight caught two salmon, 
weight 251b. and 241b.; 0th, on the reserved water, Mr. 
Minchin caught two salmon, 191b. and 101b. ; 6th, on 
the hotel water, Mr. Aitkin, Letterallan, one salmon, 
191b. On Friday, the 3rd. on the River Lyon- Dewar, 
the keeper, caught two salmon, 271b. and 241b. 
Spey (Moi’ayshire). —To-day' the river opens for 
rod and net fishing. As to the prospects it is really 
difficult to predict what they may be, as there are 
different opinions on the subject. Should the weather 
continue to be as open as it as has been during the past 
