March 18, 1893] 
THE PISHING GAZETTE 
193 
June, July, and August, when the night is declared to 
commence at 11 o’clock p.m., and to conclude at 5 o’clock 
a.m.) or at any other prohibited time—that they do not use 
any hook of the Stewart tackle or any compound tackle 
of a size larger than No. 5 of Adlington and Hutchinson’s 
make ; that they do not use any gaff for landing fish 
until after April 1; and that in all fly-fishing no swivel 
or weight of any kind be used : that they do not fish for, 
take, or attempt to take, any fish by means of rak6 or 
drag-hook, or similar instrument, or by snatching or 
stripping in any manner of way ; that they observe all 
rules and regulations adopted or to* be adopted by the 
association ; that they exhibit their tickets to the police 
officers, conservators, and keepers, and allow them to 
inspect the fish and tackle in their possession ; that they 
give all the assistance in their power to protect the 
river from illegal fishing and poaching, and aid in 
carrying out the objects of the association. 
The association’s water's—excepting the Esk and 
Liddle and the Hermitage below Gorrenberry Burn foot 
—shall be closed for rod fishing on Oct. 1. 
Any holder of a ticket infringing any of the conditions 
or rules and regulations referred to, or convicted of 
illegal fishing, or any offence under the Acts relating to 
salmon fishing, shall thereby forfeit his ticket, and the 
leave granted shall ipso facto cease and determine. 
Ticket holders to approach the river by recognised 
accesses and avoid trespass. 
The proprietory members of the association are ; His 
Grace the Duke of Buccleuch ; Sir Richard Graham, 
Bart., of Netherby ; Sir P. J. W. Johnstone, Bart., of 
Westerhall; W. E. Malcolm, Esq., of Burnfoot; Richard 
Bell, Esq., of Crurie ; James Jardine, Esq., of Lauriston; 
George Mounsey, Esq., of Kingfield; and Thomas 
Beattie, Esq., of Davington. 
The association will nut be held bound to grant tickets 
to all applicants. 
Any of the tickets may be had from the secretary, and 
Nos. 1, 2, and 3 from Messrs. Beaty, drapers, Longtown, 
or Mr. 'W'm. Routledge, 08, Englisb-street, Carlisle. 
Tickets can also be had from the 'Water Bailiffs at 
Canonbie and New Castleton. 
For further information application may be made to 
the secretary, R. M'Geokwe, solicitor, Langholm. 
Langholm, February, 1893. 
Esk and Liddle Fisheries Association. 
The waters of the association below Canonbie Glebe 
lands are open for rod fishing on Feb. 15. 
The whole waters of the association are open on 
March 15 and close on Nov. 1. 
The salmon fishing in spring is not very productive 
but there are occasionally a considerable number of 
spring salmon in the rivers. 
Yellow trout fishing begins when the fishing opens 
and continues during the season. April, May, June, 
and July are the best months. 
Sea trout open during season, but June and July best 
months, and July and August for herling. Sea trout 
and herling are, however, abundant from June to the 
end of the season. 
Salmon fishing is good in the beginning of August and 
improves on to the end of season. 
Note. —The right of net fishing having been acquired 
by the association, the sea trout and salmon fishing is 
much improved. 
Comfortable accommodation can be had in any of the 
hotels in Langholm, where there is also a comfortable 
temperance hotel, and easy access to the best waters 
can be had by rail. There is also a comfortable hotel 
at Crosskeys, Canonbie, situated within a few minutes 
walk of the best fishing waters. R. M'Gboeoe, sec. 
Langholm, 1893. 
The New Angling Regulations on Esk and 
Liddle. 
(To the Editor of the “ Esk and Liddle Advertiser.”) 
Sir, —May I crave a space in your next issue to state 
the views of a visitor on the recent alterations in the 
Angling Regulations 1 
The primary object which justifies the existence of 
the Esk and Liddle Fisheries Association must be ad¬ 
mitted to be the preservation and improvement of the 
rod-fishing. A secondary, but important, object may 
be, and, no doubt is, the attraction to the district of 
visitors, who, by spending their money, improve the 
trade of the locality. These two objects ought to be 
secured without infringing the legitimate liberties of 
the native poulation, who, I take it, have the right to 
expect most consideration. 
Now, sir, the alteration as to the size of takeable fish 
seems *10 me, as an angler, one which it is superfluous to 
discuss! How anyone over thirteen years of age can 
desire to basket trontlings of less than eight inches in 
length I cannot comprehend. A sport-loving community 
must surely approve of the alteration as a necessary 
means of achieving the first object, viz., “ the preserva¬ 
tion and improvement of the rod-fishing.” The second 
object to be attained, being one which can be looked at 
from many points of view, is consequently liable to lead 
to differences of opinion. On the whole, however, I 
think “ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ” 
may safely lie assumed as the consummation which 
would most readily command assent from all piarties. 
The.alteration in the rules I understand to be to some 
extent due to the correspondence which took place last 
autumn in your columns, and also in the Field, the 
Fisli inf/Gnreffe, and other papers. It will bo allowed 
by all who followed that correspondence, than many 
and just comjilaints arose from visitors on account of 
the excessive and persistent worming of the river when 
tlje jnterfereuG^ with tly-fi.,hiup, 
either for sea-tront or salmon. 'Without going too 
deeply into the question of dear-water worm-fishing, 
its uses and abuses, I think all anglers will agree that, 
when practised to the extent which prevails on the Esk 
from Langholm to Netherby, it is utterly destructive of 
fiy-fishing. Such being the fact, it follows that fly- 
fishers who go to the Esk in quest of sport return dis¬ 
appointed, and amongst the craft the river acquires a 
bad name. 
The association has to consider four kinds of anglers. 
1st, the native angler ; 2nd, the sportsman visitor ; 3rd, 
the native pot-hunter; 4th, the Carlisle or other non¬ 
resident pot-hunter. Beginning with the latter, I say 
he is entitled to no consideration whatever, except it be 
the increase of the price of his ticket to a sum which 
would make his avocation unreinunerative. No. 3 
should be treated more considerately, yet, wherever a 
native habitually sells his fish, I think an increased 
price should be levied upon him as compared with a 
man of equal position who fishes for sport and his own 
table. Coming to No. 2, I think that fly-fishers as a 
rule spend more money in a district than any other 
class who frequent a trout and salmon river. If such 
is the case, then “ the greatest happiness of the greatest 
number ” in your district would be secured by studying 
the desires of fly-fishers, and the second object of the 
Esk and Liddle Fisheries Association would be attained. 
No. 1—the native angler—I class with No. 2, and believe 
all good anglers would agree to the classification. I am 
therefore of opinion that the reduction of the period 
allowed for worm-fishing will be a distinct gain, and will 
further the objects of the Esk and Liddle Fisheries 
Association. 
If worm-fishing was altogether prohibited I think the 
Esk would be one of the best sporting rivers in the three 
kingdoms. It makes any lover of fly-fishing sad to 
think of the hundreds of herling, sea-trout, and salmon, 
which are hauled out with worm tackle before ever a fly 
had been presented to them ! 
To salmon fishers I am sure the change will be greatly 
welcome. The month of September will be secured to 
the legitimate fly-fisher, who in past years could only 
reckon on one day after a flood, the second day being 
almost invariably the commencement of the manipulator 
of Stewart-tackle. I will be greatly surprised if next 
September does not prove the best on record for hotel 
keepers, lodging-letters, anglers’ attendants, &c. 
Finally, sir, I must express my regret that the asso¬ 
ciation has not tempered justice with mercy in dealing 
with the gillies. Surely the deprivation of their liberty 
to fish would have been a sufficient punishment without 
depriving them of the right to add to scanty incomes 
the money earned as attendants on anglers. No doubt 
the gentlemen who manage the association are in pos¬ 
session of knowledge visitors cannot acquire, but I 
fancy some of the men were sinned against it they also 
sinned. I would, therefore, respectfully urge upon the 
association the reconsideration of that part of their 
altered policy, and suggest that licences to attend 
anglers be granted to the men on condition that they 
subscribed to such rules as were printed thereon, one 
such rule to include the duty of the holder to see that 
his patron did not infringe the rules and regulations or 
his own licence. 
Such an act of clemency might restrain men from 
drifting into lawlessness under pressure of what they 
consider—rightly or wrongly—to be harsh treatment. 
Hoping the importance of the subject may excuse the 
length of my communication.—I am. Sir, yours, &c. 
Lincluden. 
A PLEASANT EVENING AT REDDITCH. 
On Monday last a very pleasant evening was spent by 
the heads of the various. departments engaged at the 
Standard Works, Redditch. Mr. Allcook, in the course 
of the evening, sang a song. There were between forty 
and fifty present who sat down to a good dinner, pro¬ 
vided at the Fox and Goose Hotel by Host and Hostess 
Alexander. After dinner Mr. Alloock occupied the 
ebair, and in a neat speech submitted the loyal toasts, 
after which Mr. G. E. Leach gave ” The Town and Trade 
of Redditch,” and, although he entertained the greatest 
possible respect for the toast, he doubted whether 
that was a proper phace to drink to it, as they were 
all what the socialists would term non-producers, and 
represented huge expenses which could be dispensed with. 
As regarded the work at Standard Works, he thought it 
was possible they might struggle along a few more years, 
if they would do what they had to do in the best possible 
way. He coupled with the toast the name of Mr. 
Joseph Avery, who had been engaged as a warehouseman 
for twenty-one years, and had always done his work 
straightforwardly, Mr. Avery, in replying, spoke of the 
way in which Redditch had kept its trade together 
despite the severe depressions in trade which had pre¬ 
vailed in many parts of the country. Mr. Albert 
Stratton proposed “ Success to Standard Works,” and 
al .tided to the industry and integrity of the principal— 
iVir. Allcock. He (the speaker) had been associated with 
the business for more years than he cared to mention, 
and had watched its growth from the time when only 
a dozen persons were employed in it until the present 
time when hundreds were engaged there, during which 
time it had been dominated and steered with the same 
earnestness, care, and perseverance which had brought 
it to its present position. He did not think the.y, as 
non-producers, ought to be included in the category of 
non-workers, because individual management could not 
control a business of such magnitude as that, and both 
workmen and non-producers were interested directly in 
the business on which they depended for a livelihood, 
'rhaj bufjii'eSfi bad been a, ble'Jsiu^ to the comity both ii| 
providing work for many people and in giving Mr. 
Allcock an opportunity of displaying that generosity, 
sympathy, and charity, which had made his name loved 
and respected by every person who ever wanted a friend. 
(Applause.) Mr. W. H. Hallam seconded the toast, and 
regretted the absence of Mr. J. D. Munslow, who had 
been connected with the trade for about thirty years. 
He hoped all would exercise that care which would not 
allow anything to go out of the place which was not 
calculated to do credit to the house and bring further 
orders. Mr. Allcook, responding to the toast, spoke of 
the success of the business, adding that it was part 
their success. Although those present were not workers 
they had to look after the work, and when he appeared 
so anxious for orders to be got away, it was not that he 
wished to make money, but because he did not want to 
lose customers. They had the confidence of customers 
in all parts of the world, and he hoped everybody would 
do their best to maintain it. Ho was sorry Mr. Muns¬ 
low was away through indisposition, as that man had 
been with him very many years. He (Mr. Allcock) 
hoped to accompany the workpeople to Portsmouth in 
the summer on the occasion of their annual excursion. 
“ Imperial ” Silver Cup Competition. — This 
competition terminated on the 12th inst., and at the 
Imperial Hotel, Southwark-street, S.E., amidst intense 
excitement. Mr. J. Osborne (of the Mildmay Angling 
Society), was declared the winner of the cup, with 339 
points; Mr. J. IV. Biggs (Funny Folks), the roach-pole, 
with 245 points ; Mr. R. H. Morris being a good third 
with 231 points. 'With regard to the date of the 
presentations due notice will be given.— John Smith, 
hon. sec. 
A Fine Thames Pike. —In an angling competition 
amongst three members of the Royal Windsor and 
District Piscatorial Society, one of the competitors, Mr. 
Bambridge, of Eton, the winner (who had agreed to fish 
a match against Messrs. Sargeant and Roberts), was 
fortunate enough to capture an exceptionally handsome 
specipien of the Thames pike, the fish being perfect in 
shape and condition, as may be judged from the following 
dimensions : Length from eye to root of tail, 2.riin.; 
girth, 18in. ; weight, 111b. 14^oz. After attaching a 
silver ring to the first spine of dorsal fin, the fish, with 
another of 31b. similarly treated, was liberated at the 
well-known pike rendezvous from whence it came, 
about two miles from Windsor Bridge, and should 
either of these fish be captured in course of time, Mr. 
Bambridge would like to see and weigh them. 
Fifth Annual Angling Competition, in Aid of 
the Funds of the Anglers’ Benevolent Society, 
and Convalescent Home Funds. — The committee 
met on Friday, the 10th inst., when it was decided that 
the boundary should be from Carthagenia Lock to St. 
Margaret’s Bridge, towpath only. The following is the 
list of prizes up to date : Messrs. Lever Brothers, 
electro cup and box of Sunlight soap ; Mr. Sowerbutts 
(Commercial-street), a tackle case, fitted ; Mr. W. H. 
Beckett (Good Intent), a prize value 10s. 6d.; Mr. 
J. B. Close (South Hornsey), a prize value 10s. fid. ; Mr. 
G. H. Wood (Hoxton Brothers), a prize ; Mr. W. 
'Worrall (East London Piscatorial Society), a pair of 
leggings ; Mr. Hewett (Good Intent), a tobacco stand ; 
Mr. J. G. Laming (Serapis), electro cruet; Mr. W. 
Emden (L.C.C.), a roach rod, by Williams; Mr. B. 
Abrahams (Allison United), a prize; Mr. C. A. Medcalf 
(Amicable Brothers), a prize; Mr. W. H. Meeoham 
(Izaak Walton), a winch; Odds and Evens, a prize; 
Burdett, a tea service, forty pieces ; Hearts of Oak, a 
tea service, forty-two pieces ; Hoxton Brothers, a prize 
value .£1 Is. ; Crown and Buokland, a prize ; Sociable 
Brothers, a prize; Clissold, a prize value 10s. fid.; 
Angler’s Pride, a prize value 5s.; Havelock, a clock ; 
Iza*ak Walton, a prize value lOs. fid. ; Dalston, a 
silver watch and lady’s sealskin bag ; South London, 
a prize value 10s.; Globe, landing-stick, ring, and 
net; Original Alexandria, a pair of boots to measure, 
value 12s. fid. ; Good Intent, a prize value lOs. fid.; 
Lincoln, a prize value 10s. The date for the distribu¬ 
tion of the prizes will be duly announced. Since 
my last report, I beg to acknowledge with thanks 
the receipt of the following sums : Aneler’s Pride, 198. ; 
Clapham Junction, 15s. ; Park, lOs; Howick Brothers, 
fis. ; South Hornsey, 2s. ; United Brothers, 3s. ; Small 
Arms, Is.; Eustonians, 45. ; Original North Lambeth, 
2s. ; Perseverance, 43. ; for prizes. Good Intent, 
10s. fid. ; Clissold, 10s. fid.; Globe, a prize. I have 
great pleasure to announce that a special train will 
leave Liverpool-street on the 19th, at 0 o’clock, calling 
at Hackney Downs at 9.10, and Tottenham 9 15. The 
train calling at Globe-road 8.37, Coborn-road 8.39, and 
Stratford 8.45 will be in time for the special at 
Tottenham 9.15. A special will leave Rye House at 
7 o’clock in the evening, calling at Broxbonrne, 
Tottenham, and Hackney Downs. I hope that 
competitors will avail themselves of this train.—S. 
Malbt, sec. 
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