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SUPPLEMENT TO THE PISHING GAZETTE 
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to the already well stocked Lea. Roach fishinfj at 
Broihonrne has closed a fortnight earlier than usual. I 
suppose it will open again about the beginning of June, 
when I am sure the roach will be in fit condition. On 
Sunday last, I saw at Cook’s Ferry several chub that 
had just been caught, and a lot of roach, all of which 
appeared to have got over spawning. There is no donbt 
this is a very early season for many kinds of fish. The 
Edmonton and Tottenham Angling Society will have 
their annual distribution of prizes and concert at the 
Globe. Fore-street, Edmonton, on Tuesday, April 16. 
The United Society of Anglers, who now meet at the 
Citizen, 70, Hounsditch, show a total weigh-in of 
11231b. 13oz. for last season.— Spliced Joint. 
liug'g' and Arrow (Iieominster). —Both these 
streams continue to run low and clear, and at the 
end of last week sport was very dull. A welcome fall of 
rain was had on Monday and Tuesday, and made the 
water rise slightly and coloured, but it was only surface 
dirt, and it soon ran off again, and the water is very 
much improved, and sport should be better. The fish 
have risen well at the Orl, Governor, Cowdung, 
Spinners, and Hare’s Ear. Minnow fishing has 
accounted for some good fish. Sport on Tuesday with 
the fly was good, and some very nice trout were landed. 
The Pinsley is now clear and low, sport quiet in it until 
more water comes down.— Gwynne. 
Lngg, Arrow, and Pinsley (Kingsland).— 
Rivers low and clear, except when disturbed by sheep¬ 
washing—a good deal of which is still going on. On 
Saturday and till last night we experienced showery 
weather (some hail), but to-day (Wednesday) has been 
bright and cloudless, yet the change has caused the 
trout to move. There have been but few rods out. 
Flies are now very plentiful and varied, Alder or Owl, 
Blue and Yellow Duns, Grannom, March Brown, Stone, 
Owls, Brown and Grey Spinners are all out. Should 
showery days ensue, sport should be fair, but at present 
appearances would indicate another spell of dry, bright, 
weather.—R. T. Williams. 
Neue. —The Nene Angling Club opened the season on 
Monday, when a fair number of members went out, but 
not much was done. The committee have recently 
stocked the river with about 2000 fish, consisting of 
perch, bream, carp, and tench. The annual meeting of 
the Peterborough Angling Association was held on 
Monday evening, when there was a good attendance. 
The balance-sheet, which was passed, showed that there 
was a balance in favour of the association of .£45 Os. 2d. 
The usual officers were elected. It was decided to hold 
the annual fishing match in July.—E. A. S. 
Plymouth — Sea Fishing. —Mackerel have been 
caught close in shore, two boats having a dozen and a 
half each, fishing at the bottom in the Sound, using lib. 
boat-shaped leads, twisted gut trace, and hooks baited 
with squid. The pollack are not located enough to 
make a certainty. I was ont on Thursday, and tried for 
three hours with every conceivable bait, including the 
natural sand eel, fishing all the old spots without suc¬ 
cess; and on turning to come in, I took the oars to warm 
myself a bit, and in passing close by the pier, we had 
fish on both lines. My son saved his, but my daughter 
of nine summers, being too anxious, did not give line, 
consequently Mr. Pollack walked off with the bait and 
half of the trace. It must have; been a tine fish, because 
I was using stout Marana gut. I whiffed over the 
same spot two or three times, without any luck. My 
son was ont the next morning at 5.30, and had a nice 
dish off the pier. I was strolling around the docks last 
evening, and saw some lovely peel jump. I should think 
they measured at least 2ft. 6in. The tidal basin is full 
of mullet, but they won’t look at a bait. There are 
plenty of fresh water eels, some 31b. and 41b. weight, 
but the dockmen say there is too good a feed for them, 
and that is the reason they will scarcely ever take a 
baited hook. However, I intend to have a try for them, 
stewed eels being one of my weaknesses.— William 
Heardee. 
Severn, Vyrnvry, Tanat, and Cain (Zilanymy- 
nech).— Rain is now again badly wanted here, as all 
our rivers are much too low and bright for good sport. 
After the recent rain some gentlemen visitors secured 
some of the best trout taken here this season, and were 
unselfish enough to give a few away to some of the 
natives, who pronounced them to be most excellent 
eating and in splendid condition.— V'tenwt. 
Sussex Streams, Rivers, and Harbours.— The 
weather during the week has been dull, with indications 
of rain, but, with the exception of a slight shower on 
Sunday night, there has been no change for the better. 
Streams are almost dry in places, and, unless the mills 
are running trouting is a hopeless pursuit. Three brace 
of small fish are notified me from one of the Ouse tribu¬ 
taries, and a fish of l^lb. from the neighbourhood of 
Hayward’s Heath, and a few fish up to 8 oz. are reported 
from the Rother, near Midhurst. Perch are in many 
rivers recovering from spawning, and dace may be seen 
rising to fly. Roach fishing is still indulged in on the 
Ouse, but it is full late for reaching. Several good takes 
of smelt have been made in the harbours and estuaries, 
and the netsmen at Chichester harbour recently landed 
a small salmon. A few bass have been seen disporting 
in the lower water.— George F. Salter. 
Teme (Ludlow). —The Teme still continues to run 
clear and a nice level and in good order for either fly or 
bottom fishing. 'I’he weather has been warm and tine, 
and in every way suitable for anglers to get out on the 
river. Rain, which has been badly wanted, fell on 
Monday and Tuesday, and refreshed the rivers a little, 
and the fish have been moving better since, and have 
risen well at the Blue Dun, Orl, Governor, Red and 
Brown Spinner, Cowdung, Stone Ply, Hare’s Ear, and 
Grannom. Bottom fishers have been successful with I 
the worm. In the early morning some fine trout have 
been taken with the artificial minnow. On Monday the 
water near Ludford was fished by a gent., who took a 
basket of very fine trout with the fly. Under the Castle 
Mill weir several very tine trout have been taken with the 
minnow. In the water near Ashford sport has been 
good with the fly. On Wednesday morning, in the 
water near New Bridge, a ciane was disturbed 
fishing : the bird had a trout, but left it in the water, 
and the fish was afterwards fetched ont and scaled over 
11b. weight. For several mornings this bird has been 
seen on the Corve and Teme, and at Bnrway. In the 
water at Knighton, Sir W. Honyman, Bart.’s keeper 
was out and came across some men groping for trout in 
the Teme. The men were stopped and a quantity of 
trout taken from them, and they will be proceeded 
against. The Ony, Corve, Chin, and Ledwyche are all 
clear and in fishing order. In the Corve some very 
nice dishes of trout have been landed this week with the 
worm. Sport in the others good.—S. Ludlow. 
Teme (Tenbury). —The water in this part is now 
running clear and a nice level, having been slightly 
improved by a fall of rain on Tuesday. This has made 
the fish move better, and they are now rising well at the 
fly. The flies used are the Ore, Red Spinner, Cowdung, 
Hare’s Ear, and some very good sized fish have been 
taken. Bottom fishing and minnow have been tried by a 
few with a little success. On Monday a nice lot of 
trout were taken above the town with the fly. The 
Rea, Kyre, and Ledwyche are all low and clear ; sport in 
them quiet until there is more water.— Worcester. 
Usk (at Usk) .—The water is still excessively low, 
and the only means of catching a few trout is by up 
stream fishing with Stuart’s tackle, but only a very 
limited number have been had. Salmon angling is now 
out of the question. There are still some old ones 
waiting to go seaward on the upper waters of the asso¬ 
ciation, and salmon pink are going down in shoals. 
■Welland (Market Deeping). —Some good sport 
with otters has been obtained at Market Deeping by 
Mr. Bromley’s pack of hounds. Commencing at Mr. 
Thorpe’s mill stream, an otter was scented but quickly 
went aground, and every attempt to dislodge the 
animal proved abortive. They subsequently proceeded 
up stream to West Deeping. Here an otter was scented 
and intense excitement prevailed, but after a two hours 
chase the animal still eluded capture. The party then 
went to Helpstone, and, although no kill was recorded, 
yet an exciting run was obtained. Sport was then 
abandoned until next day, when a start was )made at 
Tallington Mill, where sport became intense, men and 
hounds alike sharing in the excitement. An otter was 
scented, and made deliberate efforts to escape, and 
eluded capture I'or three hours, but, becoming thoroughly 
exhausted, was ultimately killed after a fierce struggle. 
It proved to be a bitch otter with young and weighed 
201b. A large and influential company took part in the 
sport.—E. A. S. 
Witham, &c. (Mid-Lincoln). —There is not much 
stirring in this locality that is interesting to anglers. 
The abstention from angling during the close season is 
very general, and it is only few who can get the 
entree to trout waters. I understand there is some nice 
fishing of this class in the Horncastle stream, and also 
in one or two other streams which join the Witham 
below Lincoln. The Bain also contains some nice trout, 
and the upper reaches of the Witham have a good stock. 
The favourable change in the weather will lead to more 
sport in this direction, and so soon as there comes a 
little more colour into the water, bottom fishing and 
spinning will be tried. The hawthorn is now coming 
into bloom, and we shall now have a plentiful supply of 
flies of all kinds in season.— Luce. 
Yare (Norwich). —.Since my last communication 
the weather has continued (with only one exception, 
Monday last, when for two hours we experienced a 
splendid rain 'll falling in that time) as it has been for 
weeks past, delightfully fine and genial, and has induced 
many to venture upon the rivers, who would otherwise 
have stayed at home, and, as usual with anglers, some 
have succeeded and others have failed. I saw one angler 
who expressed himself delighted at having captured 
seven perch, the smallest of which weighed IJlb. (he did 
not mention the weight of the largest, so I guess they 
were an average lot), and he also informed me he had 
caught some large bream up to 41b., but, he added, not 
many 1 From what I can gather, the fish caught on the 
above river are much better specimens than those 
captured on the Bure, as a friend remarked to me to¬ 
day, “ I tried Horning and gotplenty, but, oh, the size.” 
I rejoined, I know, “ sheets of tin,” but these waters, 
about which jokes are so freely made, are not to be des¬ 
pised, as, at the proper time and place, plenty of large 
and good fish of all kinds are to be obtained by those who 
know how. The first recorded match of our numerous 
Norwich clubs is that of the Boar’s Head Angling 
Society, held at Coldham Hall (which means Brundall). 
Mr. Hurrell took first prize with about 101b. of fish ; 
Mr. Brighton, second; and Mr. Learner, third. 
Amongst the catch were one or two nice sized bream 
and roach, and Hoot Fisher gave entire satisfaction as 
usual to his visitors. 'Wind S.E. and no appearance of 
more rain, which wonld be exceedingly welcome.— 
Robert Moll. 
Yore, Wharfe, &C. —It will not be possible for these 
rivers to get much lower than at present. On Monday 
last I walked all over the rocks at Redmire Force, there 
being only a small flow of water in one corner. I had 
literally to stalk the fish I killed, viz., thirteen trout, 
weighing 61b. Creepers I could not find, or might have 
done better. I caught them with the natural minnow on 
very fine tackle. Mr. F. Pemberton killed thirteen 
trout on the Tanfield water on the same day, and Mr. C. 
Gray had decent sport with the creeper, which is very 
plentiful about there, Mr. H. R. Middlemost has also 
done very well with this bait.— Francis M. Walpean. 
Scotch Reports. 
Berriedale (Caitliness). —This little river has been 
for weeks remarkably low and clear, and no attempt at 
angling has been made. The netsmen have been at work 
at the river mouth for some time back, but to date they 
have not been doing much. Some eight or nine boxes 
of salmon are all that have been got, although the 
weather was most favourable for net fishing, and, con¬ 
trary to their usual luck, there has been no loss of 
netting this season. Several salmon are in the pools 
below the bridge evidently waiting to get up. There 
seems a good crop of smolts, as they are making for the 
sea in numbers.—S. C. 
Blackadder. —On Saturday the Greenlaw Angling 
Club had their spring competition. The following were 
the 'heaviest baskets:—A. Hogarth, 51b. loz; W. 
Basset, 4!b. 15oz.; A. Cochrane, 21b.: P. Lamb, 11b. .34oz. 
Carron, Easter Ross (Ardofay, N.B.). —The long 
spell of dry scorching weather almost threatened the 
total extinction of the river. Combined with a blazing 
sun overhead, this rendered angling impossible, and, 
consequently, the whole of last week was blank on all 
the beats. On Sunday, however, some heavy showers 
fell, which did a great deal of good, so on Monday 
anglers went out in better hopes, and the results were 
fairly satisfactory. Major Maxwell, 74th Highlanders,' 
landed a 91b. salmon on Gruinard’s water; Mr. J. • 
Matheson, on Mr. MacLeod’s rod, one of 81b., oii 
Balnagown Arms Hotel water; and Mr. J. Mackenzie, 
on Mr. Littlejohn’s rod, four salmon, weighingfllb., 91b., 
81b., and 81b., all on Craig’s beat of Invercharron water. 
On Tuesday Major Maxwell grassed an 11-pounder on 
Gruinard’s water, and Mr. J. Mackenzie one of 81b. on 
Craig’s water. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Coupland and Miss 
Young, Cresswell-gardens, Kensington, have arrived to 
fish the hotel water.—McB. 
Cassley (Roseliall, N.B.). —Owing to the long 
cont'inuation of drought, sport fell off, but, after the 
copious showers of Sunday last, matters looked more 
promising. On Monday, Mr. Stanhope, P.O. Buildings, 
Invercassley, fished the lower boats, and landed three 
salmon, weighing 111b., 111b., and 121b. respictively 
On 'Wednesday, to all appearance, the clerk of the 
weather promised a spate.—McB. 
Dee (Aberdeeusliire), —The prospects of another 
fill are imminent, and will be most welcome to the mid 
and lower reach anglers ; meantime the upper pools of 
the Dee continue to fish grandly, and especially those on 
the Glen Tana and Invercauld Ballater reaches. On the 
Fife Arms water at|Braemar Mr. Winkinson has had good 
sport. On Saturday he killed five fish, scaling from 
51b. to 7Jlb., while Mr. Bush had one of 71b., and 
G. Cummin, keeper, two, of 61b. and 81b., on same water. 
On the Balmoral waters very fair sport is being got by 
Dr. Profeit and the royal keepers. On the Invercauld 
Ballater waters Sir George Chetwode had six fish from 
71b. to 91b., four, of from 81b. to 101b., three, of 7ib., 8!b., 
and91b., two, of 71b, and 81b., and four, of 61b , 01b., 71b., 
and 81b. On the same water Mr. Wood had seven, 
scaling from 71b. to 101b., two, of 91b. andll^lb., three, of 
81b., 81b., and 101b., one of 101b., and one of 
101b.; Mr. Heath, one, 4Jlb., three, 81b. each,, twoj 
71b. and 81b., and two, 131b. and 81b; while Mr. 
Griffith had in the same time two, 6Jlb. and 71b., two, 
of 61b. and 81b., one of 81b., and two, of 71b. and 81b.; 
Captain Bailey, four, of 61b., 81b., 81b,, and I21b.; two 
of 61b., four of 61b. to 101b., one of 81b., and five, ranging 
from 81b. to 101b.; Mr. Wood, two, of 91b. and 1141b., 
three, of 81b., 81b., and 101b., one of 101b., and one of 
lOJlb.; and Mr. Potter two, scaling 7^1b. and 391b.—the ‘ 
latter the heaviest spring fish got this season to the 
fly. On the Glen Tana waters Mr. Barry and part.y 
(three rods) creeled during the week eight fish scaling 
from 61b. to 101b., eleven ranging from 71b. to 151b., 
eight scaling from 81b. to 151b., nine from 71b. to 151b., 
seven from 81b. to 161b., and seven from 91b. to 111b., 
being fifty fish for the week, and making a total of 180 
fish to iMr. Barry’s party from the Ist April. On the 
Aboyne Hotel waters fairly good sport has been ob¬ 
tained considering the low state of the water. On the 
hotel water Mr. Fox landed two, of 61b. and 71b.; Mr; 
Laming, two, 61b. and 7Jlb.; and Mr. Whitehead several 
scaling from 61b. to 111b. On the Lower Glen Tana 
water Mr. Whitehead killed eleven fish tor the week, 
while Mr. Fox had four on Saturday of average weights. 
On Tuesday Mr. Bailey had one of 71b., and Mr. Percy 
Wormald five, on Wednesday, on the Castle water, 
scaling 81b., 8Jlb., 7Jlb., 8Jlb., and 19|lb. On the 
Cambus O’May waters, Mr. Callendar, Mrs. Blair, and 
party are having five and six fish daily. On the Kincar¬ 
dine Lodge water Mr. Lamond landed one, 91b. On the'’ 
Lower Dess, Mr. Duff, Fetteresso, had one, 81b., and J. 
Harper one, 81b. On the Carlogie section Mr. H. J. 
Tennant creeled three, of 191b., 81b., and 61b., and two, 
of 6Jlb. and 71b., on Saturday, while Mr. P. Wormald 
landed one of 7ilb., one of 91b., on the Borrowstone 
water. On the Ballogie section Mr. E. Drummond’s 
party landed one, 91b., two, 151b. and 91b., and one, 81b., 
while Captain Quintin Dick, on the Woodend section, 
had three, 191b., 81b., and 81b., on Friday. On the 
Cairnton Mr. T. Turner Farley, and, on the Blackball, ' 
Mr. J. T. Hay have had a few fish. On the Durris 
water, on Monday, Capt. Farquhar, R.N., had a beauty 
of mb., and Mr. Baird had four fish on various days 
during the week. On the Ythan, Mr. and Mrs. Jopp, 
Aberdeen, made baskets of 17Jlb., 201b., and 251b., trout 
on the last three days of the week. This river is n'ow 
