Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes Volume 42 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: instant he felt the steel prick. The water being singularly bright and clear, I was obliged to use the very finest tackle with drawn gut bottom length, a tight line, and therefore the amount of sport I got was literally superlatively grand. In five hours fishing I killed seventy-five pounds of roach, every one of them big fish, and many considerably over two pounds each. The next day I went again to the same place. The conditions of wind, water, depth, and stream were all precisely similar, and yet although I had left the fish biting eagerly the night before, the following day I could not get a touch. Hence I prospected for the next deep and regular swim in the immediate neighbourhood, and here I found my friends at home, and moreover inclined to be as amiable as ever. When I got home upon the second day, I found Tom far in front of me again in point of quality of fish, while I had killed the greater number. A good many of mine, however, would have done for decent jack-bait, while in his case it would have wanted a very mammoth of a pike indeed, and plenty of time for the operation of gorging, such clinking great fellows were those he had brought home irom Flicton Weir Hole. THE WEST MIDLAND SHIRES. No county more truly earns its patronymics of "fair " and "proud " than does Salopia. Proud, indeed, she has every cause to be, not only of her fair women, but also of her fair, broad acres, stretching away on either side of the Severn in an admirable mixture of pasture and light plough, dotted with princely mansions, and encircled on the west by the border hills .of Wales. If you want to view Salop there are three points of vantage-ground apart from her western hills. The first is the conical wood-clothed Wrekin, the second is the Grinshill rock, and the third is the top of L...