Angling sketches . h gemswere recommended by Clemens of Alexandria viu AKGLIXG SKETCHES to the early Christians. The figure of a manfishing will put them in mind of the the Greek is using the red hackledescribed by zElian in the only known Greekreference to Fly-fishing. CONTENTS IAGE The Confessions of a Duffer . . i A Border Boyhood lo Loch Awe 3S Loch-fishing 65 Loch Leven 81 The Bloody Doctor 93 The Lady or the Salmon? 107 A Tweedside Sketch 121 The 143 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FULL PAGE LLLUSTRATIONS A Palpable Bite Newark Castle . Up the Burn . . Yarrow KiLCHU
Angling sketches . h gemswere recommended by Clemens of Alexandria viu AKGLIXG SKETCHES to the early Christians. The figure of a manfishing will put them in mind of the the Greek is using the red hackledescribed by zElian in the only known Greekreference to Fly-fishing. CONTENTS IAGE The Confessions of a Duffer . . i A Border Boyhood lo Loch Awe 3S Loch-fishing 65 Loch Leven 81 The Bloody Doctor 93 The Lady or the Salmon? 107 A Tweedside Sketch 121 The 143 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FULL PAGE LLLUSTRATIONS A Palpable Bite Newark Castle . Up the Burn . . Yarrow KiLCHURN Castle, Loch A^^?l;The Witchs PoolLoch Leven—the CastleClearburn Loch . tweedside ashiesteii FrontispieceTo face page 20 56608498 12S ANGLING SKETCHES ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT PAGE Parr and Minnows 14 Smailholme Tower 16 Yarrow 25 A Border Keep . 27 AsHiESTEiL Bridge 30 The Gleddis Weil 37 innishail 49 Loch-stocking 79 The Starting Place 91 Yair Boat Pool 124 ANGLING SKETCHES THE CONFESSIONS OF A DUFFER. , HESE papers do not boastof great sport. They aretruthful, not Hke the talessome fishers should ap-peal to many sym-pathies. There isno false modesty in the confidence with which Issteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some menarc born duffers ; others, unlike persons of genius,become so by an infinite capacity for not taking B 2 ANGLIXG SKETCHES pains. Others, again, among whom I i\ ould rankmj-self, combine both these elements of incom-petence. Nature, that made me enthusiasticallyfond of fishing, gave me thumbs for fingers, short-sighted e\-es, indolence, carelessness, and a temperwhich (usually sweet and angelic) is goaded tomadness b\- the la^\-s of matter and of gravitation,For example: when another man is caught up ina branch he disengages his fl}- ; I jerk at it tillsomething breaks. As for carelessness, in boy-hood I fished, b_\- preference, with doubtful gut andknots ill-tied ; it made the risk greater, andincreased the excitement if one did ho^k a c
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