Related article: moderate outlay. For some years past the stock in the upper part has gradually diminished, and a careful inspection of this portion during the months of July and August last failed to reveal a single trout or grayling in the first two miles. Buxton is a town of increasing size and im- portance, its present population being above 4,500, and the sew- age after treatment is discharged into the Wye at a point a short distance below the town. The local authorities have admittedly neglected to keep pace with the increase of buildings, with the result that a most unpleasant and insanitary odour arises from the river immediately below the ef- fluent. Extensive works are now in progress by which in the opinion of some authorities not only will the present nuisance be removed, but the result will be achieved of making the district as healthy and well drained as any in the kingdom. There are, however, a considerable number of residents and visitors who predict that the large expenditure undertaken by the Local Board will only have the effect of shifting the objectionable deposit a certain distance lower down the river, thus, perhaps, relieving the immediate vicinity of the town of the dreadful stench and passing it on to the inhabi- tants of Miller's Dale or some adjoining village. None but an expert with full knowledge of the a66 baily's magazine. [October details could pretend to foretell which opinion will be borflt out by the stem logic of facts. As to whether the disappearance of the fish is due to the sewage pollution is a difficult question to decide. Purchase Mometasone Online Certainly it is strange that trout and grayling should still be seen in the part of the river flow- ing through the public gardens which are above the sewage outlet and that they should have gradu- ally decreased and eventuallv dis- appeared from the part of the river which is obviously affected by the sewage. Proprietors and lessees of fisheries lower down the river must be on their guard. They must remember that the first effects of sewage pollution are to prevent the fertilised ova from hatching and kill off fry and small fish which cannot be easily de- tected. When, however, the pollution has reached the stage of killing or driving away the adult fish it is too late for them to do more than recover pecuniary damages, but their sport is de- stroyed for many years to come. In reference to the length be- tween Bake well and Rowsley, the conditions under which tickets are issued, as indicated in an earlier part of this article, have been in force for many years. The dis- tance by road is about four miles, and following the turns of the river would probably not make it less than double that length. It consists of a series of shallows and pools, and no one with the smallest experience could walk along the banks without being impressed by its matked capa- bilities as a fly-fishing water. It is, therefore, not surprising that it should be one of the most fre- quented fisheries in the kingdom, and no doubt the landlords of the two hotels empowered to grant tickets to their visitors derive a considerable profit from this privi- lege and indirectly, probably the freeholder shares in the benefit.- There are comparatively few days in the season when less than eight or ten rods can be seen on the water. A mere casual con- versation will elicit the informa- tion that sport is usually very poor, that it is quite exceptional to find any number of trout rising during the hours of daylight and that the bags are unsatisfactory, not only in regard to the number, but also as to the average size of the fish killed. The habitue of the water usually walks from one favourite pool or spot to another, passing over long intermediate stretches of water, as he knows exactly where he can expect to find the sizeable trout. The grayling, though small, are more abundant than the trout, and the casual visitor's catch is generally made up of one or two brace of salmo thymallus averaging some- thing under half a pound. A number of theories are ad- vanced to account for the dearth of sport. According to some the water is overfished to such an ex- tent that the trout are rendered too shy to rise at any fly, natural or artificial. This is scarcely credible as all of us have had the experience of waters quite as much overfished as this, and yet with a good batch of fly the trout in them rise and are killed by those who can fish. Anglers of another school sagely opine that at some remote period Purchase Mometasone the stock of trout was seriously reduced and that some stocking was under- taken to supply the place of those killed and for some mysterious reason the trout thus introduced do not take to surface food. This argument contains two palpable absurdities — firstly, that stocking operations on anything like an adequate scale, could be carried out without the full facts being 1897.] DONCASTER REFLECTIONS. 267 known on the spot ; and secondly, that* it is possible to find a stfain of trout, either naturally bred or emanating from the pisciculturist's ponds which could refrain from feeding Order Mometasone Online on the natural fly when hatching in considerable numbers, and never be deluded by the imi- tation floating over them. Seeing that on the lengths im- mediately above even during the most unfavourable weather an angler can always find sufficient rising fish to keep him occupied, and as on the Bakeweil to Rows- ley water he can often wander about daring the* entire ddy and not see a single trout feeding on the surface, there is only one feasi- ble and reasonable argument to advance, viz., that the trout are not there, and if the reputation of so good a river is to be preserved some serious steps must be taken on Generic Mometasone a scale commensurate with the extent of the fishing, and without delay to introduce new stock into this portion of the Wye. Frederic M. Halford.