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THE PISHING GAZETTE 
[April 1, 1893 
the borouprh of Eastbourne, and shall consist of thirty- 
eight members, namely; 
One member appointed by the county council of Kent, 
six members appointed by the county council of the 
eastern division of Sussex, five members appointed 
by the county council of the vrestern division of 
Sussex, three members appointed by the borough 
council of Hastings, three members appointed by 
the borough council of Brighton, and one member 
appointed by the borough council of Eastbourne; 
with the addition of nineteen fishery members repre¬ 
senting the fishing interests of the district, whereof 
one member shall represent the Board of Conser¬ 
vators of the Bother fishery district, one member 
shall represent the Board of Conservators of the Ouse 
fishery district, and seventeen members shall be 
appointed by the Board of Trade. 
The members to be appointed by the councils shall 
be appointed in each year at the usual quarterly meet¬ 
ing of the said councils respectively held on or next 
before the 18th day of March : 
The members to be appointed by the boards of salmon 
conservators and by the Board of Trade shall be 
appointed in each year not later than the 18th day of 
Alarch : 
All the members shall retire, and the new members 
shall come into office, in each year on the 18th day of 
March : 
Provided that the first members to be appointed by 
the councils and by the boards of salmon conservators 
shall be appointed at the meeting of each body respec¬ 
tively held next after the coming into force of this 
order ; except that, where any council or board shall 
have delegated to a committee of their body the power 
of appointing such first members, the appointment made 
by such committee at its first meeting after the coming 
into force of this order shall have the same force and 
validity as if the same had been made by the council or 
board ; and the first members to be appointed by the 
Board of Trade shall be appointed before the 14th day 
of April next; and that the first members of the com¬ 
mittee shall come into office on the 14th day of April 
next, and shall retire on the 18th day of March, 1891. 
Retiring members shall be eligible for reappointment. 
On the occurrence of any casual vacancy in the com¬ 
mittee by death, resignation, or otherwise, the body by 
whom the vacating member was appointed may fill up the 
vacancy by a fresh appointment. 
It shall be the duty of the clerk or other officer of the 
committee to forthwith notify every such vacancy to the 
appointing body. 
ft shall be the duty of every appointing body to forth¬ 
with notify every appointment of a member of the com¬ 
mittee to the clerk or other officer of the committee, or, 
in the case of the appointment of the first members, to 
the Board of Trade. 
No act or proceeding of the committee shall be 
questioned on account of any vacancy or vacancies in 
the committee, and no defect in the appointment of any 
person or persons acting as member or members of the 
committee shall vitiate any proceedings of the committee 
in which he or they have taken part. 
No council shall make, vary, or revoke any regulations 
or standing orders respecting the quorum or proceedings 
of the committee_ hereby constituted, or as to the area 
within which it is to exercise its authority: Provided 
that any council may make a regulation requiring the 
committee to communicate to such council once in each 
year an estimate of expenses proposed to be incurred by 
it under the Act, and once in each year a printed 
abstract of its accoirnts for the preceding year, and to 
afford, to any person or persons appointed for the pur¬ 
pose by the council, access at all reasonable times to the 
books containing its accounts. 
Subject to any restrictions or conditions made under 
sect. 6 of the Act, the committee shall not be required 
to report its proceedings to any council, nor shall its 
acts or proceedings be submitted to any council for 
approval. 
The first meeting of the committee shall be summoned 
by the Board of Trade. 
The committee shall hold four quarterly meetings in 
each year for the transaction of general business, in 
addition to any special or adjourned meetings. 
Five members shall be a quorum at any meeting of the 
committee. 
The_ committee may from time to time appoint a sub¬ 
committee or sub-committees of its body, and may assign 
to such sub-committee or sub-committees such duties as 
it may from time to time determine. 
3 . F.i'pensef, 
The expenses of the committee, other than those 
which may bo required to be incurred under section 8 of 
the Act, shall bo chargeable as follows :— 
One nineteenth part thereof on the administrative 
county of Kent, as general expenses of the council 
thereof; six nineteenth parts tuereof on the adminis¬ 
trative county of the eastern division of Sussex, 
exclusive of the borough of Eastbourne, as special 
expenses of the council thereof; five nineteenth 
parts thereof on the administrative county of the 
western division of Sussex, as general expenses of 
the council thereof ; three nineteenth parts thereof 
on the borough fund of the county borough of 
Hastings ; three nineteenth parts thereof on the 
borough fund of the county borough of Brighton ; 
and one nineteenth pirt thereof on the borough 
fund of the borough of Eastbourne : 
And the precepts which the committee shall from 
ime to time issue to the several councils f r the sums 
required to defray their estimated or actual expenditure 
shall bo calculated accordingly. 
4. Definitions. 
In this order the expression “ Bother Fishery Dis¬ 
trict ” means the fishery district of the Biver Bother, 
formed and defined under the Salmon and Freshwater 
Fisheries Act, 1861 to 1886, or any of them, by a certi¬ 
ficate of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of 
State, dated the 6th day of January, 1872; and the 
expression “ Ouse Fishery District ” means the fishery 
district of the Biver Ouse, in the county of Sussex, 
formed and defined under the said Acts by a like certifi¬ 
cate, dated the 27th day of December, 1875. 
Signed and sealed by order of the Board of Trade, 
this fifteenth day of February, 1893. 
(Signed) COUBTENAY BOYLE, 
[l.s.] Acting Secretary to the said Board. 
SOME HEBRIDEAN SPRINO 
QUARTERS. 
Most anglers regard the Hebrides ab this 
season of the year as too far removed from the 
beaten track to be reached with convenience or 
even safety, whereas, as a matter of fact, the 
contrary is the case, and not only can most of the 
islands which are worth visiting for angling 
purposes at this season be reached with almost 
as great ease as during the recognised tourist 
season, but the sea voyage to them is, as a rule, 
accomplished with much more comfort by those 
who dread the ocean. Indeed, I can remember 
but few occasions during spring on which even 
the worst of sailors would have had much to fear 
from the troubled motion of the “ unharvested 
sea.” All the Hebrides do not in springtime 
hold out equal inducements to the angler, 
indeed, in my view, Islay, Colonsay, and 
North and South Hist, with apologies to 
DIull and Skye, are alone worth visiting. These 
are worth visiting, however, for angling purposes, 
and I propose here to give a few hints which may 
not only induce anglers to visit these western 
pickets of the Atlantic, but may also be service¬ 
able to them when they do. Islay is, on the 
whole, the most easily reached of the Hebridean 
group—at least at this season of the year. 
Leaving Glasgow by rail in the morning, or pro¬ 
ceeding by rail direct to Greenock, Tarbert is 
reached about twelve by MacBrayne’s fine 
steamer, the flrenadier. The traveller then 
either walks or drives by coach over to' 
West Loch Tarbert, where he takes steamer 
to Islay, and reaches that island about 
4.30 p.m. If he makes Bridgend Inn his 
headquarters (as he should do, if on fishing bentj' 
he will have a drive by coach of some eleven 
miles, and should reach that comfortable hostelry 
about 6.30 p.m. Two excellent trouting lochsi 
can be fished from this inn—lochs, in my opinion, 
unsurpassed by any in Scotland for early brown 
trout fishing. Over one of them. Loch Guirm, 
the inn-keeper, as a landed proprietor, has a. 
right of fishing, and I have many pleasant 
memories of spring days spent on its spreading- 
waters. The last occ-asion on which I fished it 
in spring I killed fifty trout, 37|lb., forty-two of 
the fish being killed in an hour during an extra¬ 
ordinary rise. I had been on the wrong sids^ 
of the loch all day. Loch A-Cor is nominally 
preserved, but I never heard of anyone being 
interfered with. There is a boat on it. Its trout' 
are darker in colour than those of Guirm, but' 
large ones are frequently met with. Finlaggan. 
is another good loch, and leave for it is easily 
obtained. It yields very good sport, and I have 
frequently taken from fifty to seventy trout on. 
a spring day, running from Rb. up to lib. (and 
averaging five to the 21b.), varied by an occasional 
small sea-trout. Lossit is another good loch (all 
these can easily be reached from Bridgend), for- 
which leave can be obtained with no great 
difficulty. Early in the year I once killed, in two 
afternoons on this loch, no fewer than 192 trout 
weighing 63Rb., and, so far as I am aware, its: 
excellence is unimpaired. There are many hill 
lochs not far from Bridgend, in which fair 
baskets of trout can be made. Some of them bold 
large shy fish—notably. Loch Ardnahuidh and 
Torrabus. The river-fishing is all preserved, but. 
should leave be obtained, the Sarn will be found 
a good trout stream, while both in it and the: 
Laggan there is a fair run of sea-trout in spring,, 
with an occasional grilse. All over, Islay is a 
pleasant place to pass a week or two during the 
earlier portion of the ang ing year. 
The Scalasaig Inn, in C’olonsay, has three very- 
good trout lochs, the fish being of the Loch Levere 
variety. Colonsay has an extremely mild climate, 
and hence the trout are early in condition, a fact, 
no doubt, due to the abundant supply of insect 
life while the season is yet young. The inn is a 
comfortable, homely sort of a place, and one could 
not very well get farther from the madding 
crowd. Colonsay is reached either by steamer 
direct on Thursday evenings from Greenock (the 
return call being early on Tuesday morning), or 
byway of Islay to Port Uskaig on the Monday, 
and thence by sailing packet. The fishing is 
first-rate, and the lochs convenient to the hotel. 
For mixed fishing, both brown and sea-trout, 
however, both Islay and Colonsay must yield 
pride of place to South and North ITist. The 
former is reached (on the same day) by daily 
steamer from Oban at 6 a.m., while the latter is 
reached either, I believe, by way of Strome 
Ferry or by Skye, though I am uncertain as 
to the present arrangement, a defect in my 
information which a line of inquiry to Mac¬ 
Brayne’s people can easily rectify. The fishing 
from Lochboisdale Hotel is excellent from April 
onwards, both for brown and sea-trout. With 
regard to the former, fine warm weather, such as 
we have been recently enjoying, is undoubtedly 
the most favourable. The angler should, out of 
the 200 odd lochs attached to the hotel, devote 
at this season most attention to Milton, Chilleir- 
avagh (which also holds sea-trout). Lower and 
Upper Bornish, Hallan, Leianfa-Moire, Kilbride, 
and Askernish Lochs, if bent on brown trout; 
while for sea-trout, Low’er Kildonan, A-Bharp 
(which at this season holds an odd salmon), Na- 
Sgairrbh (which is also excellent for brown trout), 
and that peculiar salt-water river—the Strome— 
should receive most attention. The fishing in 
North Hist is very much the same as in South 
Hist, and there are at least four lochs where sea- 
trout fishing can be had at this season. The 
terms at both places are moderate, £3 33. per 
week—fishing and boats free—with the moderate 
charge of 3s. per day for gillie. The weather is 
usually fine in the Hebrides at this season, and 
there are few localities which offer a more 
thorough “ change ” to the angler faded with a 
winter in town, for the combination of mountain 
and sea air is more health-giving than when 
each is breathed separately. Duine Mor. 
LARGE-MOUTH BLACK BASS J.V 
EUROPE. 
Herr Max von den Borne, the weU-known 
German angler and pisciculturist, writes to us on 
March 24 as follows :— 
“ Dear Sir,—You will be interested in learning 
that in a few weeks’ time I shall be sending a 
number of ‘ large-mouth black bass ’ to Mr. 
Mason, of Lowestoft. 
“This fish, which I call ‘forellenbarsch ’ (trout- 
perch), does exceedingly well in Germany and 
Austria. M. Susta, director of the great carp 
fishery of the Prince of Schwarzenberg, at Wittiu- 
gen, in Bohemia, informs me that of all his fish h) 
considers the black bass the best table fish, and 
that in his winter ponds he has 60,000 of them. 
“ The Wittingen carp ponds can all be drained 
dry; they cover 6000 hectares, and every year 
5,200cwt. of fish are sold from them. 
“ Other American fish I also find do admirably, 
such as small-mouth black bass, brook bass, com¬ 
mon and long-eared sun fish, small catfish, and 
rainbow trout. 
“I have sent consignments of them to all the 
European states, except Turkey and Spain. 
Large-month black bass I have frequently sent to 
England, including orders for the Marquis of 
Exeter and Mr. Mason. 
“ All these fish thrive only in water which 
becomes in summer of a temperature of more 
than 15deg. Reamur, they will not thrive or 
breed if the water remains under this tempera¬ 
ture, so there is no fear of their injuring trout 
which live in cool rivers. Where the trout 
thrives the black bass will not.—Very truly 
yours, (Signed) “ Max v. T). Borne.” 
Hearoer & Sox, Plymouth—Fisheries Ex¬ 
hibition, Westminster.—Mr. Wm. Hoarder may 
be consulted at their stand at the Aquarium, 
from 10th to 15th of April. Sea-fishing gear of 
all kinds ; collapsing tra^s and dredges, otter and 
beam trawls, trammels, &c. 
