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interfere with each other's sport on a lake, as the 

 former is said to delight in the strong breeze and 

 the big rolling wave, and the latter only wants 

 some quiet sheltered spot where flies collect and fish 

 feed. If you anchor to fish close on a good dapping 

 drift you and your fish will constantly be disturbed. 

 The dapping-boat has often to pull back up wind to 

 the head of a drift, and very naturally the boatman 

 takes an inshore course to save labour, and you have 

 no cause to blame him ; but if you are in some calm 

 and sheltered spot away from any reasonable drift it 

 alters the case, and the fishermen in the other boat 

 should instruct their boatman not to pull close in to 

 you and disturb any fish that you are watching or 

 fishing. On lakes where there are clubs or associa- 

 tions strong enough to have rules and regulations 

 carried out it would help to have a few simple ones 

 drawn up, the fewer and simpler the better. On calm 

 days especially (when dapping is useless), the draggers, 

 i.e. boats dragging after them many baits (I have 

 seen five rods out from one boat) disturb the fish 

 feeding in shore a good deal, as they pull close along 

 all reed beds on chance of a pike ; in most cases 

 where you or your fish are disturbed it arises from 

 ignorance or curiosity, seldom from cussedness." 



" Some may consider fishing alone in a boat dull 

 work. My own experience is that there is plenty to 

 interest the dry-fly fisherman whilst waiting for a 

 rise. 



" The lough is an open book waiting for us to read 



