146 AN ANGLER'S NOTES ON DAGENHAM LAKE.
Shooter's Hill. It seems to me that at Dagenham Hall we have
evidence of the continuation of this synclinal beneath the gravel flats
of Essex, between Warley and Shooter's Hill. It is at least prob-
able, therefore, that before the Thames in its lateral progress south-
ward had planed away the original features of the ground,.Bagshot
outliers may have diversified the surface around Dagenham, where
we now see but one unbroken flat of river-gravel.
AN ANGLER'S NOTES ON DAGENHAM LAKE.
By JOHN HILLIAR.
DAGENHAM Lake, or the "Gulf," as it is locally called, has long
been a favourite resort of anglers, and has had a good reputa-
tion as a fishery. Twenty years ago it was a quiet, out-of-the-way
water, with many secluded spots where an angler could sit quite
hidden among the reeds, and oftentimes take in a few hours a basket
of fish heavier than was convenient to carry away. The water is
about forty acres in extent, and is fed by the Beam river, two small
streams called the Goves, and the adjacent land drainage; the over-
flow and flood water passes away under the river wall, through
sluices, into the Thames.
The following is a list of fishes which I have taken, or know to
have been taken, from this water. There are most likely other species
that I have not met with or heard of:—
Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio).—A few very fine specimens,
weighing ten to fourteen pounds each.
Tench (Tinea vulgaris).—Small, to one pound each.
Bream or Carp Bream (Abramis brama).
White Bream or Bream Flat (A. blicca).
Hybrid Bream.
The breams were the most numerous fish in the lake, and speci-
mens have been caught there weighing three and four pounds each.
Roach (Leuciscus rutilus).—The roach was next in abundance
to the breams, generally small; but some few were caught weighing
from one to one and a-quarter pounds.
Rudd or Red-eye (Leuciscus erythrophthalma).—Small fish,
the heaviest eight to ten ounces.
Perch (Perca fluviatilus).—Very fine, from one to five pounds.
Mr. Pennell records one of eight pounds taken in the lake.