... Plaice still continues to be enormously dear and apparently there is little prospec. of the price diminishing, facts that speak most strongly in favour of a journal devoted to the advancement of the Fishing Trade. To the Aquariums now springing, up we ...

... this year sport appears to have been almost uniformly poor. Of the sport to be obtained at Barden Tower, I am not able to speak from experience ; but I am told the fish are plentiful, and run about three to the pound. Fine tackle is essential. Anglers ...

... pierce the armoury, well, the injured one may put it down either to ignorance or malice. This child, whatever he does, will speak his mind, be the consequences what they may. So here goes—but hold ! How must I begin? I have promised to furnish you with ...

... The proportion of brain in some fishes is as low as lin 2,000. Moreover he is a long-lived fish, for Mr. ltheinhold Foster speaks of seeing some carp between two and three feet long only, which wore fifty or sixty years old. Bearing these advantages in ...

... greatly to the delight of the hungry mob below, who regularly fought for them.— Another correspondents writes—Mr. Carrington, speaking of the introduction of a salmon to the Westminster Aquarium, says, This is the first experiment of conveying a live salmon ...

... attend to the broads and look after the fisheries. I beg to submit to the committee a map showing the broads I have been speaking of. The committee will see that they cover a vast area, and I am sorry to say that these waters have been, up to the present ...

... which fish have been divided and sub-divided. Professor Owen, I believe, has classified theta according to their bones, or, to speak more scientifically, their = ...

... —The river has a capital reputation for the fish named. One or two of our friends have tried the spot you mention, and they speak well of the sport. The landlord is a decent fellow, and the house is on the whole comfortable. A Member.—We are necessarily ...

... the Plectognathi order (so named from the arrangement of the maxillary bones); and the cray-fish, which is, strictly speaking, no fish at all, but a member of the great class called Crustacea. But under the two chief orders above-named we must ...

... none. True enough the fish came on biting after a time, but I don't think many of them belonged to the original muster. Speaking of this Shardlow water reminds me that William Bailey used to fish for barbel from off the bridge before named. The structure ...

... Phillips live long to point to this token of esteem and respect from his brother anglers. Before I made this digression, I was speaking of the stuffed fishes of the club. Well, they are a most creditable exhibition, and if my friend Mr Frank Bucldand were to ...

... temperature of the water has greater influence on the fish and on the insects they devour than that of the air. Every angler speaks unfavourably of snow broth, as he metaphorically terms melted snow, as if there was something inimical to fishing in the ...