Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1903-09-04 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

BREAM. IN THE CANAL  Steins- that Captain thrinrod hni secured a length of the canal below Lancenter and in said to contemplate, /dishing it ash roach and perch far einter fishing for the member, or his unglue/ rinnocratren, It has occurred irene er two ang!ere that the 'der might be developed by others. We read in the fishing papers a great deal about the wonderful catches of bream 1111 the Midlands anal the south. and • correnpierdent from Carnforth writes asking me It breain could not be stocked in the canal. Most certainly they could. The bream i. a very hardy bah, living specially shigginh rivers and canal.. He is a bottom feeder, like the reach and perch, living on worms and grub,. Ho areas to a great sire, and in Lincoloslcre and Norfxlkshire he in frequently caught up to 51b. and Ob. weight. When hooked he fights well, hie string /dead', pull hack being rev... Atom in those ehoriver lifore had one a, the end of their line. There was a capital article in the "Field" last week on bream fishing in the rivein and broads of Nor. bib. The writer, evidently a thorough angler, gave it an his 41.1ia10.1 that bream fishing is the most fa,inating of all forint, at coanie tinning. He painted a delightful picture nit niurnlng's fishing, when his catch. weigled *touru. Mgt when ninny of hie br, am ran to -11 b. and .51h. apiece. Sorb is the bream, a fat lordly &lb riven tiling • large flat bellied mach, and a full which I should dearly like to see naturalise/I in our canal. They may be bought very cheaply frocu the hatchery entablinhments. I am sect sure whether Captain Ortured stocks them, but if not, Mr. Ford, of Coaster, near Brigg, will lave any number on hand. What is wanted is eosperatmn. SUMP angling club should take it up and get otherci to join. They should then make the purchase and turd in Um bream re a sertaltle stretch of the /anal. There vu fine weer, of later beyond Carnforth in every way suitable. In fact the renal from ICarniorth um to Beta-irk in about as suitable for bream as au; striteli I know. The capon' meat would not mat much, suit I du rout see any rears,/ why it -hould not he successful. commend it to the autbroritipt ut the angling Iclub at the Travellers' Rest, Carnforth. If they take it up perhaps they will let me know. Atuthre fine etreteil of the eanil sistal• le for bream ta the branch hum Ualgate to Ulasson Dock. 't'here in practically on traffic 1111 it arid thr oiler i. cc clear unit fresh an a brook, wriile there Cr,' on; lumber at iayo White plenty of plant life for food and Amitec. Some of th: Brenton or Holton anglers might devote • themeelves to thin aectiou. Cl RIOT'S FISHING FiXPERIENCES. There are nearly always some interesting augling experiences iceorded in the "Fishing Gasette." Its LAO week's iiisue Mr. W. I'. Booth sends a regular st ring ot them as follows: Anima ono r uuuburd "Inippenteun." the rase of thc pike hooked idniont aiiitultaneously by Iwo anglers, the trout hooked and lion overnight :ind /mach( next morning, the kingfisher 'mulling upon the angler's roil, the swallow entangled in the cast of flies, the pike breaking ...ay with a flight of hooka and beim:captured Inter in the day, the salmon "that tried to commit suicide" by jumping ashore—all these t have experienced in ournitum with othi r enelers; but there are three itmtanees that monthly stand alone—uamely, two trout taken en one phantom rit the 611110 trine, each fairly booked, two perch eaught on one hook simultaneously, and a pike caught through its greed In attempting to iii allow a reach that wne bring kept alive in a submerged lauding-net, the teeth, of the pike becoming entangled rn the 111.611. Proll:thly thew eXperielirea are 110 more "unique" Omni those mentioned in the Brat part. fit nic let te, lint at any rate :hey are wor.li rem:dia.f. Tim two r.erch on one  'hook were canght in eonseqnen, of perch No. I sucking the worm through hin gill and perch No. 2 taking •t and getting booked, leaving the tired threaded on the line. !Then a iierond corrtepoirlent, Mr. Leonard 'Crowds, writing from Tverine, Ireland, tells how he WI. reeling in an alb, pike when it was attacked hy n larger one. The biggeid got away, and he thou landed the one he had hooked. It had four new wounds on the tail, lone of them five inches long and over half an linch deep. What sort of a pike moot it have been that hail the courage to attack one 111 b. weight end just three feet long'- Mr. Cross).., the same day, cacitht another pike, a five pounde% and ne he a-as Wittig the hooks not be SAW the legs and feet of a water hen pro. trading up ite thloat. One knew that big pike tackle water tune, but iins hard!v thought that a five pound fish could have aceonineulated "c