128 Wet- Fly Fishing 



the stipulated time in such competitions; 

 but all men are not gentlemen, and angling 

 clubs are not all equally strict in carrying 

 out their rules. 



I recall, while fishing the Isla, at Glenisla, 

 seeing the members of an angling club from 

 Dundee, weighing at the hotel, one Saturday 

 evening. 



Some of them told me quite frankly, 

 that they had begun fishing the night 

 before ! Some had fished " the Shee," 

 others "the Isla," and all had used worm, 

 live minnow, "fly," etc. It is true that 

 they had fished only " one day," but when 

 a man fishes all these hours and withholds 

 the fact, while swaggering about his big 

 baskets ; I maintain that he is not a sports- 

 man. The least that a man can do when 

 he gets a more than usually large basket of 

 trout thus, and speaks of it, is to add, " But, 

 of course, I fished from sunrise to sunset ! " 

 and that, in June, means a very long day 

 indeed. 



May I add, with absolute truth, that my 

 best baskets have been generally quite easy 

 to make, so far as the skill went. What I 

 mean by such a statement is simply this 

 the water was clear, and the weather 

 " settled." Then the trout were " keen 



