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SUPPLEMENT TO THE PISHING GAZETTE 
[May 27, 1893 
REPORTS FROM RIVERS, LOCHS, &c, 
River Reporters who want forms and envelopes 
should send a post card to the Manager of the Fishing 
Gazbtte, St. Dwnstan’s House, Fetter-lane, London. 
Time of High Water in the Thames. 
To find the time of high water in the Thames at any 
the following places, to the time of high water at London 
Bridge given below. 
r30 min. for Chelsea. ^5.5 min. for Kew. 
\40 ,, ,, Putney. \75 ,, ,, Richmond. 
Add-stS ,, ,, Hammer- Add<80 ,, ,, Twicken- 
I smith. / ham. 
'-50 „ ,, Barnes. '-85 „ ,, Teddington 
Example :—If it is high water at 2 o’clock at London 
Bridge, it will be high water at Teddington at 3.25 or 85 
minutes later. 
N.B.—A strong wind up-stream accelerates the tide 
very much, and one down-stream retards it. 
Time of High Watee at London Bridge. 
Saturday, May 27 . 
Morning. 
Evening. 
. 0. 2 
Sunday, ,, 28 . 
. 0.25 . 
. 0.44 
Monday, „ 29 . 
. 1. 3 . 
. 1.23 
Tuesday, ,, 30 . 
. 1.42 . 
. 2. 0 
Wednesday, ,, .31 . 
. 2.17 . 
. 2.33 
Thursday, June 1 . 
. 2.49 . 
. 3. 6 
Friday, „ 2 . 
. 3.23 . 
. 3.41 
English and Welsh Reports. 
Iiower Thames. — General Remarks. — The 
holiday season, as a rule, puts a stoppage to angling, 
as the river is so fully occupied with the pleasure traffic 
in boats, and there has seldom been a Whitsuntide with 
more glorious and delightful weather than this last one, 
nor the river more largely frequented with the rowing 
population. There is also the necessary absence of 
anglers who have been away holiday seeking far away from 
the grand old river of Thames, and trout catching has 
been out of the question. I regret to learn of the fatal 
accident to an assistant lock-keeper at Teddington. It 
appears, in crossing over the gates on Saturday 
evening, he was under the impression that both gates 
were closed, but, as it turned out, the second was 
not, and he fell into the water and was drowned. He was 
only engaged for the summer season. I was very much 
pleased with the result of the collecting box in possession 
of the Prince Regent Angling Club, which is located at 
the Prince Regent, Globe-road, Mile End, and it is only 
a small club. The honorary secretary writes: “I have 
great pleasure in sending yon a cheque for .£1 123. (id. 
for the Thames Preservation, and, although we are only 
avery small club, I hope to send you a larger amount 
next year.” As it has come too late to include in the 
accounts for the financial year, I take this opportunity 
of giving publicity to it. Our energetic honorary keeper, 
Mr. A. E. Armstrong, of Chertsey, writes: “\Ve have 
had a magnificent rain, and no doubt the capture of 
several more trout will he recorded. Thousands of 
barbel, dace, &c., are on the scours in the weir. The 
spawning season has been most successful, and no doubt 
it must show good results.” The trout anglers have 
only a short month before them, and with the change in 
the weather should be up and doing, as they can now get 
out in the open and give a little turn to the fishermen 
who have been complaining of having nothing to do.— 
B. 
Upper Thames. —Since the rains which fell so 
heavily and generally up the Thames Valley during the 
past week, the river has gained considerably in volume 
without any appreciable colour, and is decidedly, as I 
write, in excellent trouting condition. The crowd of 
boats on the upper reaches of the Thames during the 
Whitsun holidays precluded any chance of successes 
with such shy fish as trout, and the water will certainly 
re(iuire some quietude before I am enabled to report 
such a bouquet of grand trout as in my last note. On 
'Thursday Mr. R. Jackson, in the Hurley waters,landed 
a fish of TJlb., which subsequently was sent up for my 
inspection, and I can only say “it was a love I” 
Weather settled fine with gentle breeze from the S.W. 
—Marlow Buzz. 
Thames (Datchet). —The water is in first rate 
order, just the thing for bottom fishers, and, no doubt 
everyone is waiting to go for the barbel, Ac. Trout 
fishers are very scarce, one of my patrons has had a small 
fish. Since I wrote last I missed another, a rattling good 
fish, but I hope to see him in the punt before this is in 
print. Another gentleman hooked a fine fish, the line 
fouled, and he was lost. Bad fishing some will remark, 
but in my opinion it is better to get a run or two, than 
go out and never see one.—G. LuiIsden. 
Thames (Shepperton). —Mr. Holland, of the 
Friendly Anglers, who, I am glad to learn, has been on 
the war path again after his long illness, and fishing 
with George Rosewell, has taken a brace of trout weigh¬ 
ing 71b. 
Thames (Sunbnry). —A gentleman fishing in one 
of the punts of Messrs. Edward Clarke and Sons hooked 
a large trout estimated from 101b. to 121b., and, after 
playing it for nearly an hour, lost it. 
Thames (Windsor). —Though several heavy trout 
have been seen feeding, not^ly in Windsor Weir 
stream, Windsor Bridge, the boat rafts above, and the 
Windsor ferry, I have not heard of one being taken. 
Mr. Allnutt, jun., of Windsor, hooked a nice little fish 
of about 31b. with fly, but he was cheated owing to the 
density of weed into which this game fish plunged. 
Though weedy in parts, a fly-fishermen with waders 
should get one of the several good fish now in the 
Windsor tVeir stream, the best piece of fly-fishing for 
miles either way. Rain still needed throughout the 
valley, and aftera good downpour the trout will be worth 
trying in this and other neighbourhoods. 
Ancholme District. —Some fine trout of 21b. or 31b. 
each are almost daily seen rising in the Ancholme about 
Brigg. As the close time for coarse fish is kept on the 
water, no one is allowed to take them, and by the 15th 
June they will be so glutted with food that their capture 
will be doubtful. The Black Gnat continues in great 
force, and there are still a few Hawthorns and Alders. 
The Green Drake is now daily expected. The Freckled 
Dun (moor game and orange) is now a splendid fly. 
The Dark Watchet (water-hen and orange) is also on, 
and a few Brown Moths come out in the evenings.— 
Thomas Ford. 
Coin (Tairford, Gloucestershire).— There was 
little done here worth recording during the long 
drought, though I hear that there were occasionally 
some nice fish killed. The public water now is still 
very shallow but cloudy, the weeds have been out, and 
the stream may be said to be in fairly good ply for fly¬ 
fishing, but some more rain would undoubtedly benefit 
it. The May-fly has been up now for about a week, and, 
though a good number of fish have been killed, there are, 
I think, still a nice few to be picked out. The fly will 
last, I should think, about another week. There has as 
yet been no block of flies which we sometimes see here ; 
the fish are consequently not glutted; it looks to me like 
being a draggling fly, the high winds and rather cold 
nights checking them. The fish killed have been in 
prime condition and some of them have been 2-ponnder8. 
Almost all the anglers here this Whitsuntide have 
been old friends and supporters of the Coin, who 
periodically turn up as the May-fly comes on. Several 
of them have had good sport. Amongst the most 
successful ones have been Messrs. Rogers, Russell, the 
Vicar (three and a half brace one day), Keller, Powell, 
and Tetley. Very large brown Alders have been 
on to-day (Wednesday), and I think I should almost 
have given this fly the preference to the Drake, as I 
saw several of them sucked in by big fish. The first 
good day of the fly produced some sixteen brace to 
visitors, and on Whit Monday when the town and stream 
were both crowded, some eighteen brace of fine trout 
were grassed. Considering that we have not so much 
water as of yore to go over, the sport may, I think, be 
considered very good. 1 hear that a party of gentlemen 
fishing the private preserved water in Fairford Park on 
Tuesday had some excellent sport, one local rod killing 
his five and a half brace of big fish, and another four 
and a half brace. I think I told you in one of my reports 
that any angler who was lucky enough to get a day here 
would be able to tell a tale of sport, and this is a case in 
point. Col. Porter has a fine show of trout, the result 
of re-stocking with yearlings some two years ago and 
keeping the jack down.— Pan. 
Cornish Streams. —Whit Monday was bright, and 
as a sporting day a failure. On Tuesday the weather 
improved, and, although the waters were low, trout 
sported wonderfully well towards evening. Mr. Bell, 
from London, and his friend who lives near the Inney, 
had four dozen capital trout, and some of the Camel 
fishers did well on the same day. Salmon kelts are still 
plentiful in this river and the Fowey, but on the 
Camel the conservators have taken commendable pains 
to remove them into lower waters.— Bodmin. 
Dove and Tributaries. —The May-fly is on, and 
has been since Monday ; it came out unexpectedly, just 
after our last report left for post, in first stragglers 
List of takes : Thursday last, three brace, Mr. Prince, 
Dove Dale length. Fiiday, several extra heavy fish, 
Mr. Wilson, the Birdsgrove water. Mondav, nine and 
a half brace. Dr. Fletcher ; Mr. T. Holmes, seven and a 
half brace ; Mr. Grindy, five and a half brace, including 
a trout over 41b. ; all above from the Birdsgrove water 
on Monday. Mr. W. Clifton-Smith, eight brace, Messrs. 
F. and B. Smith four brace there on Saturday ; Major 
Corbet, five fish from the Henmore Brook on Monday. 
Tuesday, Mr. W. Clifton Smith and brother, six and a 
half brace from the Birdsgrove length, all with the May¬ 
fly so far as we can hear.—D. and W. H. Foster. 
Dast and West Cleddau (Fembrokesbire).-^ 
The late rain has coloured the rivers a little, but there is 
not much more water. Trout have taken the running 
worm and fly for some few days past, and a few nice 
catches have been made, and sewin are just beginning to 
run up.—H. 
Eden (Carlisle). —The rain, which has benefited the 
farmers and gardeners to such a wonderful extent, has 
only raised the Eden about a foot, whereas it needs four 
or five feet to clear out the bottom, and shift the atten¬ 
tion of the trout from the grubs, &c., at the bottom to the 
files at the top. I have heard of no good baskets being 
got, ten or twelve trout being about the average, which 
is nothing for the time of year. Sea-tront are running 
fairly well in the Solway; but no grilse as yet. The 
bailiffs have killed seven more pike, making eight this 
season, besides what the anglers have taken.— Silver 
Grey. 
Esk (Whitby). —The river has been in better con¬ 
dition during the week, owing to the recent rains, but it 
is getting low again, and somewhat dead. Up to now 
trout have been very scarce. There are still a good few 
kelts in the river, though many hundreds have gone 
down within the past few days. We have had no clean 
run salmon yet, but the next flood is sure to bring 6om<^ 
Already the net fishermen have caught a few at sea, aim 
landed them at the local market, where they fetched, 
by public auction. Is. 2d. to Is. 3d. per pound. The flies 
now being used for trout are the March Brown and Blue 
Dun.— Jno. J. Jackson. 
Exe and Canal (Exeter).—A few light showers 
have fallen during the week, but the river Exe has 
undergone but little change. The Greedy has not yet 
recovered from last week’s spate, but is now a good 
minnow colour. On Friday last ilr. A. J. Roberts, on 
the water between New Bridge and Marsh Mills, took a 
nice little lot of six trout and six eels, and on Saturday 
a brace jib. and ^Ib. Mr. H. Moore, fishing the same 
reach, also had a nice brace, and on Monday the inde¬ 
fatigable J. A. K. turned out a pretty bag of trout and 
eels from the same locality. Several of our anglers paid 
a visit to the Moorland District on Monday last, but 
found the streams far too low and clear for sport. 
Those fishing the artificial fly did next to nothing, but a 
few very nice trout were secured by dapping the Oak- 
fly. On the Thorverton and Brampford waters, a few 
fair takes have been had, principally by evening fishing. 
Some of the best killing flies just now are the Californian, 
Red Spinner, and Yellow Dun, and for evening work 
the Coachman and Governor. On the Greedy on Wed¬ 
nesday last Mr. Roberts took a dish of three and a half 
brace, averaging about Jib. each. In a couple of days 
or so the waters here should be in good trim for the fly. 
—Red Palmer. 
Pen 'Waters (South Lincolnshire).— The holi¬ 
days have been very favourable for angling. The rains 
of last week have brought about a great change on the 
face of the country, and, though the weather has been 
inclined to be showery, the rains have held off. and the 
holidays have been very pleasant. There have been a 
number of anglers on the different trout streams, and 
some of the members of clubs are said to have done very 
well. Particulars of catches, however, are difficult to 
obtain, as they have chieifly been made on private 
waters. There are now plenty of flies on the streamy 
and among them have been the May-fly. said to be much 
earlier than usual. Among the others tried have been 
the Alder fiy, and some of the duns. Bottom fishing 
has also been better. Reports from the drains are to 
the effect that the coarse fish are coming on very favour¬ 
ably after spawning. Both roach and bream are being 
caught in the adjoining county, and anglers are anti¬ 
cipating an early start as soon as the close season comes 
to an end.'— Limpet. 
Foley (Glinton). —The season opened successfully, 
and fish are well on the feed. Several good roach were 
taken on Monday.—F. J. S. 
Idle (North Notts.). — The trout streams in this 
locality have had visitors during the holidays, and some 
very nice sport is reporced to have taken place in 
different localities. Plenty of flies of different kinds 
are now on the waters, but most of the fishing has been 
done with the worm or different grubs, such as gentle, 
&c. Some nice dishes of trout have been captured on 
the upperjwaters, and from certain lengths of theRyton. 
Most of the work, however, has been on the private 
lengths. The public lengths have not been much tried, 
as they are more adapted for coarse fish. There area 
few good trout in the water about Tilne, and towards 
Bawtry, but only few think it -worth while to try for 
them. The recent rains have freshened up the streams 
nicely, and the ponds are much fresher than they were. 
Prom the district about Southwell I hear there has 
since the change of weather been much better sport. 
—L. 
Lake Coron (Bodorgan, Anglesey). — Though 
we have rain more or leas daily, no difference is percep¬ 
tible on the low level state of the lake. A twenty-four 
hours’ continuous downpour is necessary to bring the 
fish properly on. Some fair sport has been had fly¬ 
fishing, though the fish come short. Mr. Adkins, Bir¬ 
mingham, and the writer had six good fish one evening, 
and another evening the writer got a splendid brown 
trout, 2Jlb., which took a Sedge, a fly out many weeks 
earlier than usual. Mr. Adkins got another good fish, 
21b. 2oz., with a Wickham’s Fancy, and Mr. Coles, 
Bodorgan Arms Hotel, one of 21b. On Tuesday, Mr. 
Adkins, by wading on a dull, windy day, took sixteen 
trout, some lovely pounders, and one sewin, IJlb. Con¬ 
sidering the low, clear water, this was an exceptional 
good basket. Captain Marshall had two good trout 
with a minnow, and Mr. Bird, two, with a worm, in a 
short time. Mr. Hewitt, Bolton, in four days’ bottom 
fishing, had twenty-three trout, and Mr. Southwell a 
few less. Prospects to-day (Wednesday) of the long- 
expected flood.—W. H. 
Lake Vyrnwy (North ’Wales).— Although we have 
had nice rain, ttie lake has been too rough for good 
sport. On 'Thursday last Mr. Hollingworth took seven¬ 
teen fish : Messrs. F. Robinson and Besant, twenty ; 
Messrs. Flint and Robinson, fifteen, beat fish, lib. 12oz. ; 
Messrs. Glover and Hillman, fifteen, beat fish 21b. 4oz.; 
Mr. Trevor G. Boscawen, eleven; Mr. Nugent Howard, 
seven; Dr. Richards, six; Mr. C. P. Wood, five; 
Messrs. Lovett and Williams, five ; Mr. Blackden, four ; 
Messrs. Prere and Coulshurst, three. Friday, May 19, 
Messrs. Lovett and Williams Vaughan, twelve; Mr. 
Blackden, six; Messrs. Boscawen and Howard, ten; 
Mr. Hollingworth, thirteen ; Messrs. Flint and Besant, 
five; Messrs, (^binson, seven; Mr. Coulthurst, three: 
Mr. Grover, six ; Mr. Richards, seven ; Mr. Baker, six ; 
Mr. A. G. Sale, two; Mr. Norman Mellor, five. Satur¬ 
day, May 20, Mr. Hollingworth, limit, twenty fish; 
Messrs. Lovett and Williams Vaughan, eight; Mr. Sale, 
four ; Mr. Coulthurst, two; Dr. Richards, three ; Mr. 
Isherwood, six; Mr, Blackden, two; Mr. Norman 
