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18 BOTTOM FISHING IN THE NOTTINGHAM STYLE. mind loves to dwell : and if perchance some old friend drops in to have a chat on matters piscatorial, how eagerly we fight our battles o'er again, how we recall that splendid day's sport among the barbel, or that one we had with the chub, or bream, or roach ; or how in fancy we again fight that big pike we had sant episode connected with it on which my gone after time after time, and which would not be seduced by our most alluring bait till one lucky day, which will always stand on our calendar as a red-letter day. Did we not spin a tempting gudgeon that proved too seductive for his lordship to resist, and after a struggle, the remembrance of which even now makes our fingers tingle, bear him " Once an angler, always an angler," I home in 1 triumph believe to be a true saying, whether we are of Thames, Trent, or any other river and the ; impressions we receive from our fishing excursions are never effaced from our memo- ries. Whether we have good sport or not the chances are that we shall go again at the first opportunity. No bottom fisher perhaps has a better field for his sport than those who live, as it were, on the banks of the Trent, for the great and the river majority of the fishing is bottom abounds with fish. fishing, The Trent takes its rise from the north-west part of the county of Staffordshire, about ten miles north of Newcastleunder-Line. At first it makes a circular turn towards the south-east, bending to the south, as far as within ten miles of Tamworth, where it receives the Tame, flowing through that town. Afterwards the Trent runs north-east, towards Burton- upon-Trent, a little beyond which it is enlarged by the waters of the Dove, which flow from a north-west direction. After this the Trent receives the Derwent, which descends from the mountainous parts of Derbyshire, and the whole of these waters collectively flow towards the north by Nottingham and Newark to the Humber. The Trent has an entire course of two hundred and fifty miles, and is navigable for one hundred and seventy miles from the Humber, and, by means of canals, has a communication with many of the most important rivers of the kingdom. This long river flows through a country rich in natural beauty and splendid
TRENT FISHING. 19 scenes. None but a contemplative angler can thoroughly enjoy the beauties of its landscapes, and the river itself, flowing along in its silent majesty, except where it tumbles and boils over some weir, or dashes along over the stones of the shallows, suggests to the mind of the angler some of those delicious trains of thought which all who have practised this glorious art experience. How the Trent obtained its name has been a question that has been discussed many times, and never, I think, satisfactorily explained. The origin of the name seems to me to be a long way back, and to be nearly, if not quite, lost in the mists of antiquity. An old legend connects the name Trent with "Trente," meaning thirty; and perhaps that solution of the question may be the correct one for we ; are told that " thirty streams flow down the Trent ;" that " thirty abbeys used to stand upon the banks," and that " thirty different fish are found in its waters ;" and perhaps with these thirties staring us in the face we may come to the conclusion that it really does mean " thirty." I will not, however, commit myself on this subject, but leave it an open question. As this little book more particularly relates to the Nottingham style of fishing, it may be as well here to describe the method and the various appliances required for its suc- cessful practice. In the first place we will take the rod. Now, a Nottingham bottom fisher's rod is an article on which he very much prides himself. It has to be tapered, from the butt to the point, to a nicety, and be as light as possible, with a spring in it that will hook a roach by a single turn of the wrist. No heavy clumsy rod is found in the hands of a first-rate Nottingham fisher ; it has to be nicely balanced, or else he discards it at once and selects another. My favourite rod was made expressly for me, so if I explain its construction you will see at once the sort of rod used by a Nottingham bottom fisher. It is made in three joints the butt is of the best ; red deal, the middle piece of the same wood and lancewood, spliced together about one-third the distance from the top ferrule, and the top piece is made entirely of lancewood. It is a little over twelve feet in length, and it combines lightc 2
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THE ROACH. 10 L worked the float to
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THE ROACH. 103 August. We don't exp
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THE PIKE. 107 CHAPTER VI. THE PIKE.
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THE PIKE. 109 eaglo ; the eagle, it
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THE PIKE. Ill of fifteen pounds or
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THE PERCH. 145 few inches from the
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THE BREAM. 147 namely, very dark fi
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THE BEEAM. 151 hanging down), and t
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THE DACE. 157 CHAPTER XL THE DACE.
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APPENDIX. BELOW will be found a few
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THE GOLDEN PERCH, 4OS, OXFORD STREE
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