... lifting it at intervals, like dead gorging for pike. When it got about 20yds. a roach took the bait, and as long as the blackberries lasted I kept catching them. They were the best lot I ever got in that neighbourhood. Now, as the bottom was pretty even ...

... Trotter showed nice roach from eybridge ; Mr Moore, tench from Pulborough. ',this gentleman also got a very large take of blackberries, and very fine they were ; of course he never weighed them in, as they were absolutely not for show or sale. On Tuesday ...

... he, ' these things I may do later ; I have an unbarked green hazel rod, a ball of kitchen twine, a bent pin hook, and a blackberry crook for a gaff, and plenty of worms for bait. When I have caught some salmon and sold them to the fishmongers I will buy ...

... carried on all alon e the river (as graphically described a contributor some months back), yellow trout were as p entiful as blackberries. Twenty. five years ago it was not an uncommon thing to get from twenty- ive to thirty brace of trout out of one pool, ...

... the most famed tributaries of the Thames—the Colne, to wit—and as my opportunities for angling are hardly as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, I resolved that the first spare day I had, let the wind blow from the north or south, east or west, and ...

... Scott, holding forth about Fair Melrose and pale moonlight, I resumed the rod, and knickerbockers took t 3 blackberrying. The minnows proved so effective that my visitor left town with a good sized creel full of perch, and for home consumption ...

... fisherman, and a very fine one, too ; and I hope 187 to have better news for you next week. The bleak are rising as thick as blackberries ; swallows are about, and the cuckoo has been heard as long ago as a fortnight.—l I ENHY WOOL). The Suir and its T, ibutaries ...

... climbing th e hills and visiting different spots of interest within reach of our village.. We found the hillsides teeming with blackberries, but rarely saw any the natives gathering them. There were some professional beggars, which, I believe, are the pest of ...

... wild, romantic scenery, which ever lends a delightful charm to this health-giving pursuit, will brace them up for the Blackberry fish, which, now that the barometer is falling, and depressions foretold, there is still a hope of seeing. Anticipation ...

... host's beet October brew, you journey on over a number of meadows, through a long lane with hedges completely covered with blackberries, until you reach a rustic bridge. This marks the course of the Erewash. At the time of my visit the water was very low ...

... have used the finest tackle, drawn gut and hair, tried every kind of sweet paste, worms, gentles, potatoes, blackberries (bream like blackberries), figs, bananas, a bit of crumb of bread just under or on the surface ; in fact, there is not a bait recommended ...

... chief exertions were devoted to making believe very much and preserving very little. Why, poachers were as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, yet they never got caught, and no wonder, as the class of men whose services had been secured by the payment ...