5 OCTOBER 1929, Page 16

For fishermen in general the season has been a complete

failure ; though a few very big fish have been caught. It is odd that numbers of fishermen in very different streams have been struck by the unusual number of coarse fish. They have seldom so flourished. This is quite certainly the case with dace, gudgeon, roach et hoc genus otnne in the Lea and other streams of the Home Counties. Or is it that the shoals are much more evident than usual in the shallow trickle ?