CHAPTER VI. 



DUTIES OF BOATMAN. 



T7ERY little requires to be said in this 

 chapter regarding boatmen, as when the 

 angler gets into the habit of frequenting cer- 

 tain lochs, he soon finds out for himself the 

 steady reliable men in the neighbourhood, and 

 can generally engage one of them beforehand 

 by writing to the hotel at which he means to 

 put up. But in going to a new fishing-ground, 

 he is better to leave himself in the hands of 

 the landlord of the hotel, and if not satisfied 

 with his first day's experience of the man who 

 accompanied him, let him change. A good 

 boatman is a treasure; and though we are 

 decidedly against the system of " tipping " in- 

 discriminately, we say, when you get a good 

 man, pay him liberally. We know of some 



