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THE EISHING GAZETTE 
[Maech 18, 1893 
NOTES FOR CLUB ANGLERS. 
Two pike, decorated with silver ring’s in their dorsal 
fins, are in the Thames in the "Windsor district. The 
-“jewellery ” was presented to the fish on Saturday by 
Mr. B. E. Bambridge, who is to bo congratulated on 
having taken a very fine pike of 111b. 14Joz., which, 
with a three-pounder, was duly liberated soon after 
capture. When the fish are brought to bank again the 
original captor would like to see them, as it would be 
interesting to know how much they had gained in 
weight since they have had the “ Eoyal Order of 
Bambridge ” conferred upon them. 
In the course of the evening a few speeches were made, 
but harmony principally prevailed, and a most enjoy¬ 
able time was spent. Mr. Brougham’s health was 
! drunk with enthusiasm, and he, in reply, referred to his 
! long connection with the T.A.P.S., and expressed his 
intention of following up as zealously as ever the good 
work he has carried on for the last thirty-seven years 
' for the benefit of the Thames and those who go a-angling 
in it. Mr. Gough responded for the “ Thames Con¬ 
servancy,” and, as may be imagined, his remarks were 
followed with much interest, but I am sorry he said so 
little about the netting business in connection with the 
new bye-laws. The dinner was, as usual, organised by 
Mr. Brougham, and passed off most successfully. 
Mr. C. H. Woodall has been elected deputy-chair¬ 
man of the Thames Angling Preservation Society, and 
has subscribed five guineas towards the funds. 
Mr. a. Ndthall, J.P., has consented to take the 
chair on the occasion of the annual dinner of the 
Deptford United Brothers, which will shortly be held. 
During the past few days a number of fine trout have 
been showing themselves in the Shepperton district. 
Lynx-eyed Eosewell has seen them, and if the weather 
is warm and fine on the “ First ” their number will be 
lessened. _ 
A RUDD of 31b. Ooz. may be seen at the Imperial 
Hotel, Southwark-street, where the weighing-in for the 
silver cup has been taking place. 
Trout fishing in the Lea will commence on May 1. 
Which part of the Lea is it where factories employing 
thousands of men are “ discharging the foulest sewage 
into the river ? ” This alarming information was 
elicited at a meeting of the County Council on Tuesday, 
but I am glad to hear that the matter is being grappled 
with by the Lea Conservators, and every effort will be 
made to put an end to such a disgraceful state of affairs. 
That such a beautiful stream should be polluted in this 
manner is a crying shame, and anglers and the public at 
large will therefore be interested to know of the imme¬ 
diate steps which are being taken to protect it from 
becoming, in the lower reaches, a modern Eiver Styx. 
Anglers have returned home quite sunburnt lately. 
Up the Thames on Sunday the shade thermometer 
registered 61 degs., and on a Lincolnshire river 80 degs. 
are notified! 
Mr. E. Ghurnet, secretary of the Anglers’ Benevo¬ 
lent Society, writes : — “ The competition at Eye House, 
on the 19th inst., in aid of the above society, promises to 
be a success, the Lea being open and all other rivers 
closed. Jack and perch will be barred, as the fence 
season for them is in operation. We have thirty-one 
lirizes promised up to the present, but I expect several 
others. There will be a special train from Liverpool- 
street Station at nine o’clock, calling at Hackney 
Downs and Tottenham for the accommodation of anglers 
living in the north and north-eastern districts, and 
another special will leave Eye House at seven o’clock 
in the evening, calling at Broxbourne and a few other 
stations, to bring the competitors home again.” 
The Lea is in excellent order, and I hope to have the 
pleasure of seeing a big take at weighing-in time. I 
should add that tickets for the competition may be had 
at Eye House on the morning of the competition, but it 
will save much confusion and delay if anglers will pro¬ 
cure them at their own clubs beforehand. 
Which is the correct way to spell the name of Izaak 
Walton’s favourite river—Lea or Lee ? In the “ Angler’s 
Guide ” I find it is spelt .Lee ; in the “ Complete Angler ” 
we have it printed Lea. The Fishing Gazette weekly 
river report is spelt with the “a.” 
The annual dinner of the Thames river-keepers was 
held on Friday night at the Castle Hotel, Hampton 
Court, under the presidency of Mr. A. NnthaU, J.P. 
I HAD the honour of being introduced to Mr. Gough, 
secretary of the Thames Conservancy, at the Eiver 
Keepers’ dinner, at Hampton Court, the other night. 
Subsequently I listened with much interest to his speech 
on the new bye-laws, and I certainly felt that in Mr. 
Gough the anglers had a friend so far as the Lower 
Thames was concerned. The secretary of the Conser¬ 
vancy Board strikes one as being a deep-thinking, a 
sincere—a sympathetic man. There was an impressive 
ring about his speech which savoured of goodwill 
towards the anglers of the Lower Thames. But the 
anglers below the City Stone are anglers who are con¬ 
stantly on the move. Their “ pitch ” is Eichmond one 
day, Eeading the next. They fish above the City Stone 
as much as they do below it. To the conservators and 
to Mr. Gough they extend their many thanks for the 
abolition of trailing, live and dead gorge fishing, &c., 
but fishing, as they do, the upper reaches of the river— 
what about Maidenhead, Pangbourne, Great Marlow, 
Eeading, and Henley ? — they say the conservators 
might see that means were not introduced whereby the 
fish, which their money has purchased, should be 
taken away from them in the nets of the riparian 
owners. Over .£28,000 has been spent in stocking the 
upper reaches of the river, and as the anglers who 
fish the Lower Thames have subscribed some of 
that money, they rightfully claim that their interests 
should be studied. Mr. Gough and the conservators 
do not seem to think that the Upper Thames is 
so extensively fished by London anglers as it is. Let 
them refer to the Fishing Gazette club reports, or the 
railway authorities at Waterloo and Paddington, and 
they will see what numbers of anglers weekly visit the 
fisheries which are now in danger of being ruined. 
Surely the conservators cannot stand by and see the 
work of years undone, and the large sum of money 
spent in stocking the Thames with fish wasted. That 
I money belonged to the public, to the anglers of 
\ London, and to those anglers living by the banks of the 
i Thames. Is it fair, is it just, that their interests should 
not be considered as well as the riparian owners ? No 
angler breathing would attempt to interfere with the 
I legitimate rights of riparian owners ; all the anglers 
I desire is to go on in the even tenonr of their way. 
“ doing to others as they would be done by,” their lives 
“ devoid of strife,” and wishing (to quote Mr. Gough) 
that their views might be “ sincerely and heartily met ” 
by the conservators, and that the “ Eiver Thames ” 
should continue to be “ the field of enjoyment and the 
place of recreation for the great number of people who 
live in the dense Metropolis.” The meeting presided 
over by Mr. E. B. Marston at the Foresters’ Hall was 
an instructive one for the conservators, but I am afraid 
they have done all they are going to do in the matter. 
The anglers, however, have not yet given up all hope. 
To her Majesty, who takes a considerable interest in 
angling, they look for a very favourable answer to their 
prayer. 
Mr. C. Hibble has taken 351b. 14oz. of roach this 
week, twelve fish going over IJlb. each. I subsequently 
saw the secretary of the Walworth Waltonians with a 
view of ascertaining the little spot they hailed from, but 
he had forgotten it. “ Well,” I said, “what did they 
say when you landed at the club with them ? ” “ Knocked 
’em in the Old Kent-road.” 
I SAW two splendid pike at the new Albion Piscatorial 
Sociefy’s club on Thursday night. They had been taken 
by Mr. Charles Newbury and weighed 201b. 8oz. and 
181b. 8oz. _ 
A coRREsroNDENT writes: “I hope ‘ Goosequill ’ 
will notice in his next Notes that the members of the 
Great Yarmouth Piscatorial Club have been amongst the 
fish recently.” That I will, and may they always get 
good takes. I know a few of them, especially one jolly- 
looking piscatorial, and if I chance to meet him at 
Fritton in the summer I shall keep my boat very close 
to his. I mnstget to that “ island ” first next time. 
The season for coarse fishing closed on Tuesday, and 
the last few days did not end at all badly. The rivers 
had fined down wonderfully, and the Thames, with the 
exception of a rather “ wild ” stream, was in perfect 
order for roach and pike-fishing. Crowds of anglers 
were out in every direction on Sunday, Monday, and 
Tuesday, and on the Ouse, at St. Neots, one fortunate 
London fisherman—Dr. Foley—took a pike of over 171b. 
During the fence months the coarse fisherman will find 
plenty to occupy himself with in the dinners, smokers, 
readings, “ visits,” &c., which are always taking place, 
and the time will slip pleasantly by till June 16 next, 
when the season re-opens. Generally speaking, the 
season has not been a bad one, though the clerk of the 
weather since Christmas has done his best to upset 
the swim. We have had some splendid roach taken, 
and there have been very encouraging signs of 
an improvement in the perch fishing in 'the Thames. 
The most noteworthy event, of course, in connection 
with Thames angling has been the drafting of the new 
bye-laws, and the agitation which the fishermen have 
carried on against those that were objectionable. 
I LOOKED in at the Eoyal Aquarium on Thursday to 
see “ The Fisheries,” but although there was a splendid 
display of rods and tackle I was rather disappointed at 
not seeing any fish. If anglers want to rig themselves 
out with new tackle for the ensuing season, now is the 
time. The exhibition includes other attractions in the 
way of punts, yachts, and boats adapted to fishing pur¬ 
poses, whilst the general programme at the Aquarium is 
up to its usual standard of excellency. No doubt during 
the next three weeks many faces familiar at the late 
Piscatorial Exhibition will be seen at Westminster. 
Goosequill. 
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