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THE FlSIIIXCr GAZETTE 
[March 25, 1893 
indeed, for the Tyrone rivers generally they are un¬ 
surpassed. 
Moy and Lakes (Ballina). — River and lakes are 
now in good order, and fish are running fairly well. Some 
capital sport ought to be got the Easter week, with both 
salmon and trout. Mr. McGloin one fish 131b. On the 
lifih inst. your correspondent killed a nice fish weighing 
12|lb., and on Wednesday, at Pontoon Bridge, he had 
two weighing 111b and lOJlb., and three trout weighing 
•Ijlb., all with salmon flies. On the same day Mr. John 
(Irigh had a nice fish weighing 141b. and three trout 
3.ilb. — Frank Hearns. 
Shannon and Lough Derg (Killaloe).— 
Not very much to report in the way of sport this week, 
but we hope soon to have more encouraging accounts. 
.Tack Johnson has killed, above the bridge, a springer of 
17Jlb., and he lost two others same day. Col. Willans 
has arrived here for the salmon fishing, and Major Tre- 
herne has returned from London, whither he had gone 
some ten days ago. Some of the natives, who, for want 
of any occupation, spend a few hours daily about the 
bridge, were rather amused to-day watching the antics 
of several freshly-run salmon disporting themselves in 
the excavations above the bridge. It was interesting 
to watch the movements of the fish, which could bo 
seen as plainly as if they were in a glass tank, swimming 
about in the shallow water. — S. J. Hurley (March 22). 
Suir and its Tributaries. — We had a continuance 
of good sport all last week on the upper waters, but the 
past few days this week we have bright sun all day with 
easterly winds, and frost at night, most unfavourable to 
angling. On the Glenaheiry waters on the 9th, Mr. 
John Graham landed a salmon 16Jlb.; 13th, Lord Ash- 
town, one 19Jlb. ; 15th. one 21.ilb., and Mr. John 
Graham, one of ]9^1b. ; 16th, Lord Ashtown two, IGlb. 
and 91b., all with fly. On Hymenstown waters, Mr. 
Conran got a salmon of 101b. on the 13th, and one of 
91b. on 14th.— Richd. Bradford. 
Fifth Annual Angling Competition, in Aid of 
THE Funds of the Anglers’ Benevolent Society, 
and Convalescent Home Funds. — On the 19th, 
413 tickets were registered before gun fire. Result:— 
I. H. Haines (Good Intent). 41b. Joz. ; 2, 6. Etherington 
(Peokham Brothers), 11b. 13oz. ; 3, J. Stidpholf (Peckham 
Brothers), lOJoz. ; 4, W. Gibbs (Anglers’ Pride), lOjOz.; 
5, W. Taverner (Eustonians), lOoz. : 6, C. E. James 
((Jood Intent), 6Joz.; 7, G. Pulham (Good Intent), 6;jOz.; 
8 , E. Boorman (South London), 6ioz.; 9, Roland (Wal- 
tonians), 5joz. ; 10, Bass (Brothers Well Met), 5Joz. ; 
II, J. Randall (Anglers’ Pride), 5Joz.; 12, G. Willsher 
(Stepney), 4Joz. ; 13, J. Savage (Anglers’ Pride). 4joz. ; 
14, J. Pleydell (Hearts of Oak), 4.j^oz. ; 15, J. Griffiths 
(Havelock), 3ioz. ; 16, W. Richai-dson (Dalston), 3ioz, ; 
17, W. Knight (Buxton Brothers), 2ioz. The remaining 
fifteen prizes will be fished for on the 26th in the same 
water, same boundary, .same conditions. Winners 
barred. Fresh entries will be allowed. The special 
trains will run as before, 9 o’clock from Liverpool- 
street in the morning, 7 o’clock from the Bye House in 
the evening. I have received with thanks the follow¬ 
ing amounts ; Amicable Excelsior, 123. ; Alma, 3s. ; 
St. Thomas’s, Is. ; Peckham Brothers, 43. ; North Lam¬ 
beth, 43.; Lord Palmeston, Ss.; Woolwich Brothers, 
53. : Havelock, 10s.; Greenwich, 23. ; Penge, 23.; 
Bloomsbury Brothers, la. ; Buxton Brothers, 6s.; The 
Oak, 4s.; North London, 93. ; South London, Is. ; 
Walworth Waltonians, an electro cruet; W. H. Beckett, 
10.3. 6d.; Good Intent, lOs. 6d.; making their prize .£1 Is. 
In my last report the prize credited to the Havelock 
should have been to Mr. B. Williams, 'The Good Intent, 
Mowlem-road, Cambridge Heath.—S. Malby, sec. 
Avon and Erme Fishery District. — Trout 
fishing in the Rivers Avon and Erme commenced on 
March 1, and terminates on September 30. Salmon 
fishing, with rod and line, commences in the River 
Avon on May 2, and in the River Erme on April 5, and 
terminates in both rivers on Nov. 29. The charge for 
licences is : For salmon, whole season, 20s. each; for 
trout, whole season, lOs. each ; for trout, one week, 5s. 
each; for trout, one day, 23. each. A salmon licence 
covers trout fishing. Any person found fishing in any 
waters in this district without having previously ob¬ 
tained a licence will be prosecuted. Licences may be 
obtained from Mr. Stanford Perrott, Fore-street, Kings- 
bridge; Messrs. Jeffery and Son, 12, George-street, 
Plymouth ; Messrs. Hoarder and Son, 195, Union-street, 
Plymouth; Mr. W. M. Thomas, saddler, Ivybridge ; 
Messrs. C. and R. Brooks, 10, Edgecombe-streot, Stone- 
house : Mrs. Peathyjohns, Avon Hotel, Avonwick; Mr. 
Roseveare, The Hotel, Kingsbridge-road Station ; Mr. 
John Ford, boot and shoe maker, Ermington; Mr. 
William Arscott. Royal Oak Hotel, South Brent; Mr. 
W. Davies, Pack Horse Hotel, South Brent; Mr. A. 
Peachy, Carew Arms, South Brent ; Mr. Henry Bundle, 
Turk’s Head, Loddiawell; Mrs. C. Horswill, Sun Inn, 
Dipfford ; Messrs. Lakeman and Son, Stamp Office, 
Modbury, or of the clerk of the oonaervators, Mr. 
AVm. Beer, solicitor, Kingsbridge. Persons wishing to 
exchange season trout licences for salmon licences 
may be credited with the amount paid in respect of the 
trout licence. No fishing is allowed with minnow, or 
with any artificial bait except fly, until after July 31, 
nor with worm until after May 16. All fish taken below 
Shipley Bridge, on the Avon, and Harford Bridge, on 
the Erme, not exceeding 7in. in length, are to be put 
back into the water. Fishing on Sundays is prohibited. 
The water bailiffs have orders to report any infraction 
of these rules to the Clerk of the Hoard. Agents are 
requested to till in the dates and names, and sign each 
licence before issuing the 6.ame. — By Order of the Board 
William Beer, e’erk. 
SOME NEW. THINGS PEOM MR. 
WALBRAN, OF LEEDS. 
AYe are able this week to ask our readers, who 
would like to know where they can get a double 
taper trout reel-line, dressed under the air-pump, 
as recommended by Mr. Halford and Mr. 
Hawksley, to send to Mr. Walbran for particulars 
of the new “ Detached Badger ” dry fly-line. It 
is a luxury, and, like most luxuries, expensive ; 
but it is worth sending 21s. for one on approval. 
We do not think it will be returned to Mr. 
Walbran. 
The dressing is about as perfect as it is 
possible to be made ; the action of the air-pump 
presses it right into the material of the lines, and 
we are not surprised to hear that this new line 
has already a very large sale. 
]\Ir. Walbran is now sole agent for the Marston 
Dry-Fly Docket Case, and has just brought out a 
new and cheap edition of it. It is made 
to hold a large quantity of flies on eyed 
hooks, and has also compartments for flies 
tied on gut, and a box for fine gut ends. It 
sells at 12s. 6d. and 1.5s. It takes up very 
little room in the pocket, and we may say, 
from our own experience of it, that it answers 
the purpose for which it was designed. For 
those who do not want such a highly finished 
line as the “ Detached Badger,” Mr. Walbran 
informs us he is dressing in pure oil, and by the 
same process, a line, which he calls the “ Sande- 
man,” vide “ By Hook and by Crook.” This line 
is sold at 2|d. per yard. We are also glad to state 
that Mr. Walbran has taken up the sole agency 
for the Marston hardwood rods, and are quite 
certain that any he turns out will give satisfac¬ 
tion. Prices are from 17s. 6d. to flOs,, according 
to finish. 
Mr. Dalzell, the rod maker, of St. John’s, New 
Brunswick, has appointed Mr. Walbran sole agent 
in the United Kingdom for his built trout and 
salmon rods. 
We can confidently advise inquirers to send to 
Mr. Walbran for prices of his special gut casts 
and other novelties. 
iEotes anlr (J^usrles 
Major the Hon. F. Le Poer Trench, fishing 
on the Suir, on March 11, from Clenahera 
Lodge, Clonmel, killed on the fly, with sing'e eut, 
a fresh run spring salmon, weighing 34^1b.; 
length, 42|in.; girth, 23|iu. A magnificent fish. 
We see from the Western Chronicle that, 
fishing recently in the Frome (Dorset), the Hon. 
Mr. Fortescue caught a 381b. salmon, Mr. 
Montagu Guest one of 301b., and Mr. Fane one 
of 2.51b. 
The “Ship” at Halliford. —Boating men and 
fishermen will alike deplore the loss of a time- 
honoured name from the list of cosy hostelries 
on the Thames. The “ Ship,” at Halliford, will 
remain, certainly, but “ Stone’s,” as it has been 
known for as long as most people now living can 
remember, will cease to exist next month, when 
Mrs. Stone and her family leave the old house 
where they have spent their lives till now, and 
where they have made W'elcome and comfortable 
innumerable boating and fishing parties for years 
upon years. The “ Ship ” has been in the occupa¬ 
tion of the Stone family for over seventy years, 
and the departure of its present genial and kindly 
hostess with her daughters will cause a blank 
among the riverside houses of entertainment not 
easily filled. I am glad to say, however, that 
we fishermen, at any rate, may still look forward 
to indulging in Mrs. Stone’s hospitality under 
another roof, not so very far off, as in a very few 
weeks she will be in possession of the “ Red 
Lion,” at Farningham, where I trust many of 
her old Thames friends will make a point of 
visiting her as often as may be, and conveying to 
her and daughters the latest local news concerning 
Walton, Weybridge, Chertsey, Shepperton, and 
many another riverside resort.—L. 
• ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Amateur. —Cooper and Sons, Radnor-street, 
St. Luke’s, London. 
CorrespoitUtncE 
[TFe do not hold oiirselves responsible for the opinions 
expressed by our Correspondentsi] 
“ One of the charms of angling is that it presents an 
endless field for argument, speculation, and experi¬ 
ment .”—T. E. Pritt. 
FLY-FISHING FOR THAMES TROUT. 
Sir, —Could you or any of your readers give 
me a few hints as to fly-fishing for trout on the 
Thames? I want to know a few likely spots not 
too far up the river, also what ilies to use.— 
Y’ours faithfully. Tyro. 
TROUT FISHING IN THE AUSTRIAN 
'J’YROL. 
Dear Sir, —“ Ftrox ” would be much obliged 
for any information through the Fishing Gazette 
as to trout fishing in the Austrian Tyrol, and in 
the neighbourhood of Munich; with cost of 
living, which must be moderate. Party con¬ 
sists of three grown-up and two children. T'he 
time of the visit would be from middle of June 
to end of August. 
ATlla Victorine, Banastron, Cabbii- 
Roquebrune, Alpes Maritimes, France. 
A PHEASANTRY QUERY. 
My Dear Sir, —Can you supply me with the 
address of anyone who has a “ Pheasantry ” for 
rearing up of Amhurst and Golden pheasants.— 
Y^ours truly', W. L. Cl'.mhins. 
63, Haymarket, London, S.W. 
A CANNIBAL TROUT. 
Dear Sir, —Fishing on the Dart on Saturday 
last, I saw a large fish on the shallows on the 
opposite side of the river, and, throwing over 
him, a ^Ib. trout took my fly. The big fish 
followed him, circling round and dashing at him, 
until, when about ten yards from me, he seized it 
traversly, and hung on till both were in the 
net. The cannibal weighed 21b. lloz., was 20in. 
long, and llin. in girth. I have fished for fifty- 
five years and never had or heard of a similar 
experience.—Yours very truly, 
E. Penwaine-Wellings. 
WEIGHT OF FISH. 
Sir, —It is surprising how quickly pike increase 
in weight in this neighbourhood. Some time 
ago one was caught here which weighed 17lb., 
and inside was found 31b. of lead. Another was 
caught here a few days since which scaled 141b., 
according to the St. Heofs Advertiser, but 1 see in 
Angling it has increased to 171b. Question, Did 
the gentleman who caught it, bait with the same 
kind of bait as the other was caught with ? Last 
year a noted piscator of this town went jaek- 
fishing, and, to find the depth, secured a 41b. 
brass weight to a line and let it down, when a 
large jack seized it, and, after a hard fight, the 
gentleman succeeded in securing his brass weight, 
i wonder if this was one of the fish caught 
named above, as it appears to have been fond of 
metal.—I am, &c.,' Orserver. 
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