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THE PISHING GAZETTE 
[February 18, 1893 
NOTES FOR CLUB ANGLERS, 
Tue Walworth Waltonians havo applied for one of 
the “long name society’s ” papers to be read at their 
club. 
The Xew Albion Piscatorials talk about paying 
another -visit to Christchurch before the close of the 
season. 
Last Thursday Mr. McDermott, of the Society for 
Promoting the Reading of Papers at Angling Clubs, was 
to have read a paper on “ Roach Pishing ’’ at the Ton- 
bridge and District Angling and Fish Preservation 
Society, Tonbridge, Kent ; but the meeting has been 
postponed until Tuesday, the 28th inst. Mr. R. E. 
Wedgwood, the hon. secretary of the society, is leaving 
no stone unturned to secure the success of the gathering, 
and is laying up a good stock of “ Kentish fire ’’ with 
which to greet Mr. McDermott and his London friends. 
Mr. R. Ghurnet writes to inform me that there will 
be an important delegate meeting on Monday at the 
Foresters’ Hall, under the auspices of the Anglers’ 
Association, to receive the reports of the deputations to 
the Thames Conservators on the bye-laws, and the Great 
Eastern Railway Company with reference to the efforts 
now being made to secure an extended privilege ticket 
on that line. All the delegates will, I feel sure, be 
promptly in their places on the evening mentioned. I 
trust both deputations may be welcomed back as victors. 
The Junior Fly-Fishers are getting ready for the 
trout. They had an exhibition of flies at headquarters 
on Thursday. __ 
strated with some anglers for “trampling down his 
grass.” Just here is a public path, and the anglers— 
three most respectable men—indignantly denied that 
they had caused any injury to the man’s grass. 'The 
landowner said he would call the police to them. The 
anglers meanwhile relied on the towing-path to protect 
them. The village policeman, an ardent Waltonian, 
duly appeared, sided with the landowner, and said the 
anglers had no right there. Soon afterwards, one of the 
obdurate fishers had a “ knock,” and the “ bobby,” , 
forgetting the lecture he had been indulging in, excitedly 
exclaimed, “ Look ! you’ve got a bite. Missed him, I’ll 
bo blowed 1 ” __ 
The members of the Anchor and Hope Angling Society 
were out on the 12th inst. for several prizes, but I am 
sorry to hear, encountered indifferent sport. Mr. D. 
Davis was the only one to show anything like a dish of 
fish — four chub, averaging about 21b. each. He took 
the first prize, and Mr. Hickson was awarded second 
honours. __ 
The Cam “ was lashed into a gale on Sunday in 
which no float could live.” This was the eloquent 
I though sadly-related description which a City piscatorial 
I gave mo of the condition of things down ~ - way. This 
I dash is appropriate, for the angler mentioned had a 
blank. There were no big dace about this time. 
Ip this should catch the eye of the two anglers from 
Woolwich who alighted from a main line train at Strat¬ 
ford, on Thursday week night, and called out that they 
had left a wrapper in the carriage, I am asked to say 
that no such article could be discovered by the two 
anglers who remained in the compartment. One of 
the latter gentlemen affectionately inquires “ if the 
eggs reached home safely ? ’ ’ but not knowing, cannot say. 
The following fish wore weighed-in at the New Albion 
Piscatorial Club last Thursday :—A dace of 9oz ; three 
roach, of 11b. lljoz., 11b. llioz., and 21b. 2oz.; and a pike 
of 131b. 14oz. 'They came from smrthern waters, not far 
remote from the Pine Country. 
The silver cup competition still continues to attract, 
and some nice shows of roach were, I am informed, 
brought into the “Imperial” on the 12th. Mr. W. J. 
Biggs (Funny Folks), 118 points; Mr. R. H. Morris 
(Battersea Friendly), 73 points; and Mr. A. Richard 
(Burton Piscatorials), 72 points, are the leading men at 
present. Mr. “ Johnnie ” Osborne, the winner of the last 
cup, commenced operations on the 12th inst. with 11 
points. He will have to fish hard if he intends to emulate 
that performance. ___ 
The Sussex Piscatorial Society havo just placed a 
quantity of coarse fish in the water in the Queen’s Park, 
at Brighton. The consignment included between 500 
and GOO rudd. Can anyone inform me if the fishing in 
the park is open to any angler i 
Are there salmon in the Rother I- The East Sussex 
County Council evidently think so, for I notice in a local 
paper, under the heading “ Salmon Fishery Act, 1865,” 
they have appointed eleven gentlemen to form a board 
of conservators “for the fishery district of the rivers 
Rother, Tillingham, and Brede, and their tributaries,” 
&c. Salmon were both seen and caught in the Arun (the 
sister river to the Rother) at the beginning of the sea¬ 
son, and Mr. Hoyle once told me of some suspicious 
“rises” he had noticed whilst roach fishing in_ the 
Fittleworth district of the Rother. The question is so 
interesting, that I should think a further communication 
from Mr. Hoyle, who has been in at the death of many 
a lordly fish, would be much appreciated by club anglers. 
A-n amusing story of “love and duty” reaches me 
from a quiet little Suffolk village at which bands of 
London anglers are wont to meet. The scene of it was 
not a hundred miles from Marks Tey; there, it 
appears, quite without reason, the landowner remon- 
The largest salmon caught in the River Avon, at 
Christchurch, for the past eight years, was captured on 
Wednesday morning by a fisherman named Rogers, in 
the run at Mudeford. It was a splendid fish, and 
weighed 461b. __ 
Mem. to club anglers. Don’t forgot Mr. Hoyle’s 
lecture on Tuesday, at the Silver Trout Club, the Bed¬ 
ford Head, Maiden-lane, Strand. 
Nine out of every ten anglers who fish the Thames 
seldom think of its trout. Not only the London club 
anglers but the local Waltonians as well seem to pooh- 
pooh the idea that the Thames is a river where the 
great sporting fish is to be seen and c aught. _ The fish, 
of course, are not as plentiful as blackberries, but in 
certain parts, notably at Hampton Court, Sunbury, 
I Shepperton, Chertsey, Windsor, and other up-river 
resorts a fair number of trout have their being. Some 
of the fish are of tremendous size, too. I believe I am 
right in stating that Mr. J. P. Wheeldon (who has a 
weakness for Thames trout-fishing) has expressed him¬ 
self to the effect that there are fish as heavy as 201b. 
in the river. Whether that is so I cannot say, but I 
do believe that if anglers, especially those living by the 
river-side, took up their spinning tackle oftener, or 
tried the fly in likely spots, that we should hear much 
! more of the Thames trout than we do at present. It is 
i asserted that the Thames trout will not take the fly, but 
I this is a great mistake, for anglers have, from time 
j to time, killed trout when fly-fishing for chub. Only 
^ last season, when I was fishing for barbel at Penton 
Hook, I saw a little beauty landed from the sharp 
I run of water on the gravel shallows there. The 
angler was ohubbing at the time, and seeing a rise 
promptly covered it, and eventually creeled a trout 
of 21b. The London angler has, it must be con¬ 
fessed, fewer chances of taking Thames trout than 
the local man. Observation is a great aid to suc¬ 
cess in this direction, and the local angler has oppor¬ 
tunities—but he seldom avails himself of them—of 
walking by the river side and taking stock of feeding 
fish. The London angler, upon arriving at the water¬ 
side, knows nothing as to the whereabouts of his quarry, 
and, therefore, resorts to such likely spots as weirs and 
backwaters. But trout frequent other places such as 
deep gravel pit holes and shady bushes, where the 
stream babbles by over a clean bottom. He may fish at 
the weir all day, whilst the trout have been dashing 
after the bleak and minnows in quite a different spot. 
Even the professional fishermen neglect keeping a 
look-out for the feeding fish, and if you go out 
with them ten to one if they will not stick 
you right under the weir. Here many a gallant 
trout has succumbed to the skill of the angler, 
but I contend that the non-success of Thames 
trout-fishing is in a great measure due to an absence of 
roaming and finding out where the fish are feeding. I 
confess the stock of trout is perhaps not so large as it 
might be, and, hence, the angler fresh from London 
does not go to work so cheerfully with his live-bait or 
spinning tackle as he would with his roach-pole or 
barbel-rod. Perhaps, after all, we want more trout in 
the Thames before we can see the club angler on the 
war-path. There is no reason why club anglers should 
not think more of the trout. These is no reason why 
the Thames should not boast an excellent supply of 
trout. On the contrary, the conditions are most favour¬ 
able to such an end. At no distant date, too, I think 
we shall be able to number trout in our take of the day. 
The matter of re-stocking the Thames with trout from 
Kew to the Bell Weir at Egham is being considered in 
influential quarters, and an association to be called the 
Lower Thames Trout Preservation Society is in course 
of formation. Towards the good work it has in view, 
Mr. R. B. Marston, who lately presented some thousands 
of rudd to the Thames and Lea, has subscribed the 
handsome donation of 10 guineas. I hope many more 
such subscriptions will be received, as I view with de¬ 
light the time to come when as the fish from the ’Thames 
are being weighed-in at the club they will occasionally 
include a brace of trout caught by Goosequilh. 
Carlisle Angling Association. —After an exist¬ 
ence of forty years this association has fallen on evil 
days. Its limbs have been ruthlessly lopped in recent 
years, and, at the annual meeting last Friday night, it 
was announced that all the water above Carlisle has 
now been lost. Through the liberality of Mr. 
Maclnnes, of Rickerby House, ex-M.P. for Hexham 
Division, a fine stretch of water at Carlisle affording 
fine salmon fishing in the autumn, is still available ; and 
in recent years, owing to the introduction of Loch- 
levens, the trout fishing about Carlisle has greatly 
improved, making up to some extent for the damage 
inflicted upon the whiting and sea-trout fishing by the 
sewage of Carlisle. Other water stretching down below 
Carlisle is either given or rented, the amount paid in 
rent last year being d685 16s. Another blow was the 
resignation of the secretary (Mr. J. B. Slater) after 
several years’ service ; but the chairman at the annual 
meeting (Mr. George Coulthard, English-street, Carl¬ 
isle), consented to accept the secretaryship for three 
years—a very popular appointment. Greta. 
NEW PATENTS. 
The following is a list of piscatorial patents, which is 
supplied to us by Messrs. Hughes, Eli, and Hughes, 
Registered Patent Agents, and Attorneys for British, 
Colonial, and Foreign Patents, Designs, and Tra,de 
Marks, 76, Chancery-lane, Holborn, W.C. All inquiries 
answered by them free of charge to our readers: 
1993. Hatton Harrison Leigh, of 130, Milnrow-road, 
Rochdale, for an improved fishing reel. 
2091. Charles Playfair, of 6, Chichester-street, Bel¬ 
fast, for improved fly and tackle base. 
2224. Andrew Lockhart, of 43, King-street, White¬ 
haven, for spring hook attachment for long 
line fishing. 
A GEEAT PISHEEIES AND SHOOTING EXHIBITION 
WILL BE HELD AT THE 
-A.c|.-ciari-ULn:x, es'tin^.irxs'ter 
(J. EITCHIEj Esq., ChairmaiL and Managing Director), 
OH" OOdSTHTEOTEID WITHi 
FRESH-WATER AND DEEP SEA PISHING, PISH FARMING, 
AND ARTIFICIAL HATCHING, 
Together with All Kinds of SHOOTING APPLIANCES. 
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Messrs. BERNARD & SON, Piccadilly. Messrs. OGDEN & SCOTFORD, Cheltenham. Messrs. HEARDER & SON, Plymouth. 
Mrs. OGDEN SMITH, Clapham Junction; and Others. 
