The Badminton Magazine 1899-05: Vol 8 Iss 46 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 38
FREE FISHING IN A FAIR ISLAND SI but on lifting the point of the rod I found a good fish fast, which promptly ran out some ten or twelve yards of line and dived to the bottom of the pool. I had no landing net, but eventually coaxed him on to the shallows and secured him, to the great delight of… … shallow water and, while fishing over any likely stone, I was much interested to watch a swineherd—to whom I had given some fish, hence his interest in fly-fishing—drive his pigs across the river as I waded from one side to the other. They accom- plished the feat several times in the fast water,…
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