20 FLY-FISHING. 



that a small one ; and the rod with the sand-eel did 

 not catch a fish. 



The next time I went out it was to the Isle of 

 Arran, when I killed sixty-nine fish, all with my flies. 

 I hooked one tremendously large fellow, which run 

 out the whole of my line 200 yards. Unfortunately 

 the hoatmen were not quick enough in bending on a 

 sea-line to my rod ; they were nearly a minute about 

 it, with the fish pulling most furiously all the time. 

 The moment they had done it I threw my rod over- 

 board, when away it went at a rapid rate for a consi- 

 derable distance, but it was too late ; the mischief, I 

 suspect, had been done before I threw the rod over- 

 board. We saw, from the sudden stopping of the 

 rod, that something was wrong; and on getting in 

 the tackle again, we found that the wheel-line had 

 broken about ten yards above the fly. 



My last two days of sea fly-fishing were the 10th 

 and llth of November, in Bertraghboy Bay. A gen- 

 tleman, who was desirous of witnessing this sort of 

 fishing, accompanied me on both occasions. In the 

 two days we killed 420 pollack, but none of them 

 were large. I once hooked seven at one time, and 



