Angling Reminiscences
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217778381
Paperback|9780217778381
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOCH TAY. I Know no salmon fishery in the world that habitually yields such large fish as Loch Tay. The average of fish caught in Loch Tay for some years has been something like 22-Jlb.; a fish under 20 pounds is said to be rather exceptional. Week after week, each season, have we seen the returns with 25, 27, 30, . and 35 pounders plentifully besprent, and at last this year a 50-pounder was brought to land upon a single gut. Fired by the notion of such monsters I much longed to try my hand at them. The late Lord Breadalbane had offered me fishing in the lake on previous occasions, but I never chanced to be in Scotland early enough in the year to avail myself of it, the season lasting from the middle of February to the end of April. This year, just as I was meditating a flitting to some fresh air and change, being ordered thereto by the considerate family medico, who knows my failings and has a brother angler's sympathy with them, the present Earl called to see me on some matter of business, and in the course of conversation most kindly renewed the offer of a week's fishing on Loch Tay; and thus the question of where to go for a change and fresh air was most agreeably determined. I, as mightbe expected, jumped like a trout or salmon at so Written in 1881, since when, heavier fish have been caught, J believe. desirable a chance; and getting my friend G, who had never yet set squadron in the field, or fly or minnow dancing over a salmon, nor indeed seen a salmon off a fishmonger's slab or a dining-table, to take a seat in the boat with me, and to relieve the dullness of the journey and of sitting for hours each day with only the boatman to talk to, I set out for Killin, via Stirling and Callander. Nothing adventurous or exciting occurred on the journey excep...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217778381 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217778380 |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 184 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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