10 FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



my opinion, to account for this ; but I have no doubt that 

 wherever the sewerage is conveyed into rivers, as it very 

 frequently is now, it is most detrimental to the fish, and 

 all these pollutions, I believe, account for a fact which 

 has struck me during the last few years, and which I 

 have also often heard commented on by other fishermen, 

 viz. how often you kill trout, "especially large ones," in 

 shocking bad condition even in July. 



On all waters where they sell weekly or daily tickets, 

 the fish are so constantly whipped over that they get no 

 rest, and at last will not rise very well, even to the natural 

 fly itself. 



For one man that fished twenty years ago from love of 

 the sport, and who was probably a fair hand at it, and a 

 sportsman, there are hundreds of men who flog the water 

 now, and who, in a great number of cases, only do so 

 because they are on what they call an outing, and the 

 river is near. There is no place in Great Britain where 

 the real fisherman can retire to, so as to be free from 

 these tourist, or rather excursionist, fishermen ; and the 

 worst of it is, besides spoiling the fishing, they utterly 

 demoralise the small fishing inns, which used to be so 

 pleasant. 



I believe the reasons above given are the true ones for 



