114 TROUT FISHING 



in the "fancy notions of tourists frae 

 Lunnon." Blae-wing, woodcock, and the 

 hackles, small for streams, larger for lochs, 

 and for lochs supplemented by teals and 

 perhaps a few heckham-peckhams, will 

 serve all over Scotland. 



So the local authorities say, and the 

 local anglers achieve wonderful results 

 with the limited equipment. Living con- 

 stantly within easy reach of streams and 

 lakes, Scotsmen are nearly all of them 

 anglers more or less, and those who fish 

 frequently fish well ; but they do not 

 realise that the craft has great possibilities 

 of refining and development. Indeed, in 

 sports and pastimes generally they seem 

 to be constitutionally content with medi- 

 ocrity. In football they are, I think, 

 supreme ; but there is no other game of 

 skill, no other sport, in which they are 

 equal to the English or to the Irish. 

 This is notable in regard to cricket, in 

 which the best team raised from the whole 

 of Scotland would probably be no match 

 for a second-class English county ; and 



