CHAPTER VI. 



FISHING GOSSIP. FLY FISHING IN FRANCE. 



>ANY people have ah idea that trout 

 and salmon fishing in France, more 

 particularly in Lower Brittany, is 

 first-rate ; this is not the case, it is 

 passably good, but nothing more. I have fished 

 over most parts of Brittany, which is amusing 

 enough, and I have sometimes made a good 

 basket of trout. I once caught eighty-six nice 

 fish, herring size, about twelve miles from Quim- 

 per, in Lower Brittany. There are plenty of 

 salmon at this place, but I could never manage 

 to rise one to a fly. Many capital fishermen 

 have essayed over and over again, but it has 

 always been a failure. Every sort of fly has 

 been tried, Scotch, Irish, Welsh, and English. I 



