Thames Rights and Thames Wrongs; A Disclosure - Softcover

Bickerdyke, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1154033325 ISBN 13: 9781154033328

Publisher: General Books LLC, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter X fishery preservation and fishery rights Of all rivers in England the Thames is the finest trout-stream, and the one most prolific of fish. This may seem a somewhat bold assertion, but any one who takes the trouble to follow the record of sport in the many sporting newspapers will see that the clever trout-fishers of the Thames are quite as successful as many salmon-fishers in rivers of no mean repute. In fact, during the first three months of the trout-fishing season a really skilful angler sometimes takes more fish than does a salmon-fisher in the same period on a fairly productive stream. Thames trout-fishing has vastly improved of late years. A quarter of a century ago the man who caught a Thames trout was a sort of piscatorial hero. Now, as I have said, almost every weir between Pangbourne and Teddington yields several fish weekly. Any one, too, who takes a careful observation of the river during or shortly after the coarse fish-spawning season, will see, and indeed cannot help seeing, that it contains immense quantities of barbel, chub, roach, and dace, the latter fish being plentiful only in the lower reaches. Gudgeon must be present in millions, for it is no uncommon thing for two rods in the course of a long summer's day to catch twenty or more dozens of these succulent little fish. Jack, too, seem to be increasing, for, when perch-fishing, I have caught as many as a dozen of these fish (under-sized) without moving my boat fifty yards: last June, indeed, several takes of from twenty-five to twenty-eight jack were made in one day at Henley, the great majority of the fish being under-sized. When we bear in mind that several thousands of anglers fish the Thames every season, many of them making large bags of fish; that spawn is gobbled up by the m...

Edition details

• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1154033325
• ISBN 13: 9781154033328
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 58