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THE FISHING GAZETTE 
[April 8, 1893 
HAIIJ'SIIIRE TROUT FISHING. 
Dear Sir, —After Easter it is generally ad¬ 
mitted that the Hampshire trout fishing has 
fairly commenced, therefore it may be of interest 
to your readers if I send you a few notes made 
during the last week and this morning. The 
River Test between the stone bridge at Broad- 
lands and Mottisfont has received my special 
attention for the last few days, anticipating, as I 
am, fishing a portion of the said river close by 
Jlottisfont this year. 
The weather has been intensely bright and clear 
for nea-ly a fortnight, and the sun quite hot in 
the middle of the day, consequently the river is 
proportionally bright and clear, and the fish very 
visilde. The trout appear very forward, being in 
good colour, and remarkably full in outline, more 
like what I should expect to see them quite three 
weeks later. 
1 have noticed very few fly on the water. Last 
Friday, the 24th, there was a fair hatch of largish 
duns which lasted for about an hour in the 
middle of the day. 
Two trout were rising and taking these flies 
just above Timsbury bridge, where I had taken 
up my post of observation. About noon 
these fish were in earnest, and I remember 
thinking at the time how easily one might have 
cast over them, and probably had them. A dark 
olive appeared to me to be the nearest imitation 
to the fly then on the water, and that, failing a 
hare’s ear, would have most likely done it. Walk¬ 
ing back to Romsey, I saw a few more fish rising, 
but in rather a half-hearted way. 
To-day, about the same time and place, there 
was hardly a fly to be seen, and I only saw one 
fish rise in (juite a mile of water, although I 
saw plenty of trout lying close to bank and sur¬ 
face evidently on the look-out for insect food. 
Jack seem plentiful here. Wednesday last 22nd 
1 counted nine of these fish between the stone 
bridgeandthe second mill above, barely half amile. 
I hope your correspondent from Hampshire and 
district does not hint at a close time for these fish 
in our rivers (see Notes last week). Now is the 
time for wiring and other means to rid us of 
these nuisances. (Jne of these fish was a good 
one, about 101b. I should think, bearing a con¬ 
spicuous white spot on its head, which, I hope, 
will bring it to an early end. 
There are indications to-night of a change in 
the weatner; a good westerly rain would greatly 
improve things from a fisherman’s point of view. 
The county is looking perfect now; to-day I 
noticed the blackthorn in bloom—so far we 
have escaped the blackthorn winter. Old in¬ 
habitants here say th^y do not remember such a 
March as this has been for forty years. May it 
point to a successful arigling year. I hope to be 
on the river, Mottisfont way, next week, and 
should anything of interest occur will write 
again. Apologising for the length of my letter. 
—I am, yours faithfully, C. R. L. 
The Willows, Romsey, Hants. 
TROUT FISHING WANTED. 
Dear Sir. —The old migratory desire is begin¬ 
ning to manifest it.'-elf. It always does so pretty 
strongly at this season of 'he year. I long to 
leave the cares of business, and to wander away 
with my fly rod for a hit of trout fishing-. But 
width r am I to go ? Ti ere ci mes the difficulty. 
Will any good brother kindly direct me to 
quarters? I don’t mind how plain if clean, in a 
pretty part of the country, where I could take 
my wife, and where I should get fair fishing (fly) 
about end of May or in June. 
Is there any place in Wales or in the Lake 
District where such a pleasant combination could 
be met with? I was at ITlswater and Winder- 
mere last autumn, but could do nothing. I was 
told it was then too late for the tly, but that 
earlier in the year good sport could be had on 
both these lakes. Pooley Bridge and Patterdale 
on the former being recommended as good 
stations. 
Any advice or information through Fishing 
Gazette would be most gratefully received by 
Fi.y Rod. 
F-^'-—Have been recommended to go to the 
Coquet, but it is a long way. Could I go there 
first, and take some place in Lakes on my w'ay 
back. I want rather easy fishing, as I cannot 
stand the fatigue of walking long distances as I 
could thirty years back. 
PROVINCIAL ANGLING ASSOCIATION. 
Dear Sir, —My remarks of M-arch 4 appear to 
have rutfied the hackles of Mr. C. White, but the 
irritation applied evidently did not act immedi¬ 
ately, or perhaps Mr. White has waited to be 
“ delegated^” to send you the peevish letter he 
did. Lancashire knows how to spend her money, 
and whilst content to buy a teapot at a reason¬ 
able price at Birmingham, will certainly not give 
an unreasonable price for a travelling card, pre¬ 
ferring to spend money with a railway company 
that pays wages, rather than fritter it away on 
delegates whose chief distinguishing character¬ 
istics are verbosity and good appetites, coupled 
with promptness in drawing expenses. As to the 
charges made for entrance to the wonderful con¬ 
cessions obtained by the P. A A. Mr. White gives 
us £‘S as the charge made to Warrington, but 
carefully avoids any mention of the demand 
made on Bolton, or the modest request for liberal 
expenses for two Birmingham delegates to visit 
the Manchester Amalgamation. Judging from 
the Birmingham notes in the H/s/iwy Gazette from 
week to week, it would appear that a “ piscatorial 
trinity ” exists in that town, director in chief, 
Mr. C. White, with two coadjutors, e.g., letter, or 
rather notes, of April L It is with great reluc¬ 
tance that I enter into the task of a reply to Mr. 
White, but feel I ought to do so. 
Now, sir, I want Mr. White to answer a few 
plain questions. When and where was the P.A.A. 
constituted the mouthpiece of all anglers outside 
London? When did Lancashire and other 
northern counties confer the power on an 
association they never heard of? Will Mr. C. 
White publish the statements made to the 
London and North Western Railway Company 
when the P.A.A. obtained the rights from ihis 
company to issue cheap travelling cards ? Did 
the P.A.A. refuse to co-operate with our official 
body, the Northern Anglers’ Association, and 
then include the legislature area of this body in 
their application to the various railways ? Did 
the N.A.A. apply to the P.A.A. for a copy of 
their rules and get refused, although sending 
their own as a guarantee of good faith ? Did 
the P.A.A. ask the N.A.A. to join them blindly 
without ever seeing their rules ? When did the 
rules of the P.A.A. first see the light of day and 
their existence begin, together with the date of 
printing ? 
We have a lot of cheap travelling up here, 
and if Mr. White, or any of his association, 
wish to travel hereabouts we will give them a 
card, as we never try to keep good things to our¬ 
selves or muzzle another association.—Yours 
faithfully, Lancashire Corresi’ondent. 
MAY-FLIES KNOWN AS MARCH 
BROWNS. 
Dear Sir, —I see it was stated in your Hamp¬ 
shire correspondent’s notes in last week’s Fishing 
Gazette, that May-fly had been seen on the Itchen, 
between Winchester and Twyford. Could this 
have been so ? I know this position of the river, 
and even when the May-fly is plentiful (in its 
proper season) about I’wyford, it is very scarce 
indeed between Winchester and that place. I 
suppose your correspondent did not send you 
actual specimens of the fly. He goes on to say 
“they were what are known as March Brovns 
perhaps hy that, May-fly was not what he meant. 
1, as a reader of tne b'ixhing Gazelle, ahoald like 
to know if any May-fly really came up, and how 
many days the hatch of fly lasted. 'Ihere have 
certainly been none on the Test!—Your.s faith¬ 
fully. 
Enquirer. 
Romsey, Hants, April 5. 
[Somebody must have been “ a-gammoning ” 
our Hampshire correspondent, who evidently 
does not know the difference between a Alarch 
Brown and a May-fly.— Ed.] 
A LOST FLY BOX. 
Dear Sir, —Will you kindly allow me to inquire 
through your paper about a box of eyed trout 
flies that I left on a seat in the train last Saturday ? 
I was going to fish the Darenth, and got out at 
Eynesford station. In the same carriage was a 
gentleman who said he was a native of Newbury, 
and a member of the Kennet angling club. 
Should this meet his eye, he will, 1 feel sure, be 
very happy to be the means of restoring my lost 
case of flies.—Yours truly, C. W. Ceuney. 
Bromley, Kent. 
OEHLSCHL.VGER’S IMJ’ERIAL SPINNER. 
IIoNOUR.ABLE SiR.—Yoiir honour will very much 
oblige me if you would have the kindness to take 
notice in your journal about my invention. The 
details are to be found in the kritik closed by. 
To great thanks you will oblige, honourable sir, 
your’s respectfully, J. Oehlschlager. 
Pillnitzerstrasse 33, Dresden, 
Saxony, Germany. 
The Imperial Spinner of Oehlschlager.* 
(Method of Spinn-fisiiery). — Amongst all the 
numerous spinners wich have been brought to 
market is the “ Imperial Spinner of Oehl¬ 
schlager,” himself a very experienced sport-fisher, 
the most worthy of notice on account of its great 
usefulness. The arrangement of the tube, where 
hook-system aud the mask is so ingenious, though 
so very simple that the most possible deception 
of the fish will be attained. In comparison to 
those spinners wich are hitherto in use, who 
have left on account of their faulty con.striiction 
very often, even the best sports-angler without 
success, is the “ Imperial Spinner of Oehl¬ 
schlager ” of the greatest effect. Even the shyest 
fish cannot withstand its attraction. The cast- 
steel snooding wich is used by the spinners, 
causes that the counectioii of the spinner with 
the cord is not to be seen, and therefore the fishes 
go easily to the lure. The cast-steel snooding 
resembles with his great tenderness, one might 
say invisibility, the advantage, never to be de.s- 
troyed ; this cannot be sayed of the gut-threads, 
wich very, easily wear off on a greavelly ground. 
The members of the “Dresdener Angel-Club” 
use to their spinn-fi.shery only the “Imperial 
Spinner of Oehlschhiger,” wich is made in 7 
sizes for the catch of all big and small fishes of 
prey. For the catching of trouts is the “ Imperial 
spinner” already after the first trial indispensable. 
It replaces in the small size at once the imitated 
fly- The results of the “ Imperial spinner ” 
depend upon the mask, wich hides the hook- 
system in such a manner that the fish cannot 
possibly see anything of the hook, and fancies to 
be a welcome prey, and with eagerness snap to it, 
but at the very moment the hook is fast in. 
We recommend to all friends of the angler- 
sport to try once these “ Imperial Spinner.” 
Recommended by Mr. Otto Berbig, secretary of 
the “ Dresdener Aiigelclub.” 
DOES LONG USER CONSTITUTE A 
RIGHT? 
Sir, —If townsmen in a provincial place angle 
without let or control for fifty years—say, in a 
mill-tail water and scour—does such user con¬ 
stitute a legal right ? Assuming for argument’s 
sake that no right originally existed—say, fifty 
years back—and anglers were not challenged, or 
were allowed uninterruptedly to fish for trout 
and other fish, is the miller legally justified in 
claiming the mill-tail water and fishery as against 
the to wn anglers ? In short, can a tolerated user 
override an original latent right of private 
fishery? Jjj Uoukt. 
[If no right originally existed there could be 
none now. No amount of “ User,” we believe, 
would set aside a legal right if it exists.— Ed.] 
PACIFIC SALMON TN ENGLISH 
.WATERS. 
‘Sir,—W riters to several of our sporting pipors 
have shown considerable alarm at a pro-pect of 
introducing Pacific salmon into the W'^eUli Dee. 
I hey will be glad to learn that no such intention 
now exists. True, such a project was suggested 
by an enthusiastic member of' the JJoard of Con- 
servator.*, lately one of the legislature of British 
Columbia, but, on further inquiry, the matter was 
entirely abandoned. T. J. Leadritter, Major, 
Hon. sec. River Dee Conservators. 
13, St. John-strect, Chester. 
OVER DRYNESS OF RODS. 
—I shall be obliged if any of your readers 
would he kind enough to give me a good thing to 
apply to fishing rods that have not been used for 
two or three years, to keep them in good order so 
that they will not crack or sjilit from over-dry- 
ness, as mine have not been used for tw'o or three 
yeat^s in consequence of illness. M. A. 
Woodhouse. 
* We give this iu the original English as received by 
ns.—E d. 
