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BY
HENRY CADMAN
LATE PRESIDENT ON THE YORKSHIRE ANGLERS' ASSOCIATION, ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMlLLAN COMPANY
1898
All rights reserved
[Note only those sections concerned with Isle of man are scanned]
| Preface | |
| CHAPTER I FISHING | |
| The contemplative man's recreation — The birds, their solicitude for their young — The chaffinch's nest — lzaak Walton — Two classes of anglers — Competition — Lures for trout — The dry fly — Christopher North,Stoddart, Henderson — The Shepherd and North — Some distinguished anglers — Fishing a fraud — Weeding out large trout — Sitting by the river | Pages 1-10 |
| CHAPTER II HOW DRUIDALE BECAME A FISHERMAN | |
| Mona's streams — First trout — Tickling Loobing — worm — fishing Mining pollution of Neb — The Neb as it was — Manx witches — Slieu Whallin — Tynwald Hill — Rhenass — Good baskets — Anglers' yarns — The seclusion of Mona's glens — Lead — water and trout's tails. | Pages 11-19 |
| CHAPTER III THE WHARFE, KILNSEY | |
| Origin of club — Mr. J. R. Tennant — Journey to Kilnsey — Rylstone — Cracoe — Threshfield — Netherside Hall — Arrival at Kilnsey — Antiquity of Kilnsey — The club — room — Mr. Thompson — Mr. Gleadhall — Worm-fishing looked down upon — My first trout at Kilnsey — The farm-house — Nutting | Pages 20-26 |
| CHAPTER IV THE DRUIDALE FISHING EXCURSION AND BIVOUAC | |
| A stable at Onchan — Camping out — The donkey — Start for Druidale — The Sulby river — Fishing near Injabreck — A halt for lunch — Fine trout — The donkey and cart up the bill — Snaefell — Beinn-y-Phott — Arrival — The tent pitched — Dinner — A night alarm — Breakfast — The carrion — crows' nest — Mr. Brooke — Fishing — The hawk's nest — Beauty of Druidale — Charlie's fine trout — Execution of young crows — Cooking the dinner — A wonderful pudding — Donkey's milk — Visitors to the camp — Fly and worm fishing — Midges — Tobacco — A glut of trout — Distinguished visitors — Last dinner in camp — Home | Pages 27-44 |
| CHAPTER V THE MAID OF HADDON | |
| The Peacock, Rowsley — The Wye — Derwent — Rowsley meadows — The green drake — Haddon Hall — The guide — Isaak Walton's milkmaid — The maiden's sarcasm — Haddon revisited — The maid's niece Beauty of the Wye — The sparrow-hawk . | Pages 45-51 |
| CHAPTER VI WALES — CLWYD, ELWY, LLUGWY | |
| Rbyl — Rhuddlan Castle — Clwyd — Elwy — Fair fishing — Bettws-y-Coed — Llugwy — Swallow Falls — Capel Curig — Lakes — Bull — Llanberis — Caernarvon — Clwyd again | Pages 52-56 |
| CHAPTER VII THE VALE OF EDEN | |
| Beauty of scenery — Pennine range — Source of Eden — Abundance of trout fishing — Penrith Angling Association — Appleby — Temple Sowerby — Kirkby Thore — The man in possession | Pages 57-66 |
| CHAPTER VIII THE AIRES SKIPTON | |
| The angling club — — Mr. Tennant, Mr. T. H. Dewhirst, Air. W. Naylor — Fishing — — The two old gentlemen — Bob at fault — The blue dun— Baskets of trout — Old Bob disgusted — Killing flies . | Pages 67-72 |
| CHAPTER IX THE IRT, CUMBERLAND — AFTER SEA — TROUT | |
| Calder Bridge — The Calder — ,The Ehen, Egremont — Holmrook — Snug quarters — Santon Bridge — Fishing at Irton Hall — Sea — trout — Arrival of friends — The Mite — The village blacksmith — His sport — Colonel Mawson — Departure — The local hands at it — Mr. Burns — Linder. | Pages 73-81 |
| CHAPTER X THE UBE, ASKRIGG Source of Ure — Waterfalls — Trout and grayling — Grayling fishing — Ays — garth — Falls in flood — Millgill Force — Fishing at Hawes — Wet weather — Poor sport | Pages 82-86 |
| CHAPTER XI FLY — FISHING FOR TROUT | |
| Fly — making — Pritt's North Country Flies — List of flies — Gut — Hair — Fly cast — Casting — line — Reel — Hooks — Rods — Modes of fishing — Stewart. | Pages 87-99 |
| CHAPTER XII CREEPER AND STONE — FLY FISHING | |
| Time at Kilnsey — The male — The female — Kind of rod — Tackle — Mode of fishing — Suitable weather and water — Uncertainty — Fishing in a gale. | Pages 100-104 |
| CHAPTER XITI WORM — FISHING FOR TROUT | |
| The clear — water worm — Proper season — Where to fish — The flood worm — Where to fish . | .Pages 105-111 |
| CHAPTER XIV MINNOW — FISHING FOR TROUT | |
| The rod — Ariel tackle — Best line — The clear — water minnow — Discoloured water — Where to fish — Time of day . | Pages 112-116 |
| CHAPTER XV THE KILNSEY ANGLING CLUB | |
| Members fishing Extent of waters — Description of waters — Ancient bridges — Kettlewell — Monks of Fountains — Buckden — Hawkswick — Arncliffe — Lytton Dale — Nature of bed — Size and captures of trout — Mr. Pritt — A cold bath — Pritt's humour — Flies | Pages 117-131 |
| CHAPTER XVI FLY — FISHING AT KILNSEY | |
| Good sport — Flies — A walk on Sunday — Conistone Church — Good sport in Skirfare — Good sport in August — Flies | Pages 132-139 |
| CHAPTER XVII MAYFLY — FISHING AT KILNSEY | |
| The fever — Catching the flies — Introduction to the May-fly — Mr. Reffitt — Sport — Uncertainty of sport — The cuss — Fishing in a gale. | Pages 140-148 |
| CHAPTER XVIH WORM — FISHING AT KILNSEY | |
| Clear — water worm — Good sport — The mail — Worm in a flood — The Field Dub | Pages 149-153 |
| CHAPTER XIX MINNOW — FISHING AT KILNSEY | |
| A minnow — water — Clear-water minnow — The Devon— Uncertainty of sport | Pages 154-157 |
| CHAPTER XX AN EVENING AT THE TENNANTS' ARDIS, KILNSEY | |
| Dinner — Drinks — Bemoaning state of weather — The imitation stone — fly — The brown dun — Duck and snipe — Enter Jerry — Good news — We "wet " the night — Sport at Kilnsey — Mr. Thompson — Mr. Gleadhall — Creels — Mr. Hawes — The Dale folk and gin — The Maid of Arncliffe — Isaak Walton — The stone — fly — The fly — minnow fisher — Club — room tales — Mr. Werfdale — Shooting — Migration of birds — A fresh arrival — Mr. Raneley — The bull and the mushrooms — The bull and the three anglers — The parson and the barmaid — The parson and the keeper — The vale terraces — Projected lake — An electric tramway up Whernside — Snowstorms — Mr. Ruskin and Aysgarth Falls — To bed. | Pages 158 — 182 |
| CHAPTER XXI THE TWEED | |
| Stoddart — Education of Tweed trout — St. Boswells — First cast — Fishless — Purdy — Lord Brougham — Fair sport — Merton Hall — Lord Polwarth — Dryburgh — Drowning of an angler — A field — day on Tweedside | Pages 183-191 |
| CHAPTER XXII THE BORDER ESK | |
| The Esk and Liddel Association — Honour to poachers — Netherby Hall — Herling and sea — trout — — Local opinion — Longtown — The Major's escape — Bad sport — Chub — Wilkin's Pool — Penton Lyrens — The Esk in 1896 — The Baronet and salmon fishing The Major and.his friend — Night fishing ATetal Bridge — Worm — fishing in Liddel — The land — lady condoles — Scarcity of trout in lower Esk . | Pages 192-209 |
| CHAPTER XXIII THE YORKSHIRE ANGLERS' ASSOCIATION | |
| Mr. Pritt — Formation of association — Mr. Pritt's speech — llontlily meetings — Tulip — The angling column — The " Looker-on " — Coot, coot — Use of large flies — The Eden, Langwathby — The Eamont — The Lowtlier — Frenelifield — Naming the dubs — The Aire, Airton — Eden Hall — Presentation to Alr. Pritt — His works | Pages 210-225 |
| CHAPTER XXIV THE EDEN, LANGWATHBY | |
| Free water — Good sport in the Nunwick Hall water — — The Boat Pool — The Willows — Sport in Eden — Temple Sowerby — — Weight of Eden trout | Pages 226-231 |
| CHAPTER XXV THE EAMONT | |
| Brougham Bridge — The Lowther — Large fly — hooks — Good sport in early spring — Paley's Walk — Swarms of iron — blue — The March brown — — Mr. Pritt and his friends — Lady anglers — Minnow and worm — Good sport — Fly — fishing in June — Mrs. Armstrong — Heavy slaughter — Eamont | Pages 232-254 |
| Bridge — Brougham Hall — Lowther Castle — Thunderstorms — Weight of Eamont trout | |
| CHAPTER XXVI SALMON FISHING IN THE EAMONT | |
| October floods — Uncertainty of sport — First salmon — The Castle Stream — Red Sear Pool — A smash — Fishing at Udford — Robson's Rock — Frenchfield — A1Tood Pool — Mr. Bradshaw and his salmon. | Pages 255-264 |
| CHAPTER XXVII WALES — THE WNION, THE ARTRO, LYN OGWEN | |
| Dolgelly — Hot weather — The Wnion — Cold weather — The Artro — Snow — Cader ldris under snoe' — The Panorama — Lynn Ogwen — Poor sport. | Pages 265-271 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII THE MIDD | |
| The Harrogate Angling Associations — Captain Greenwood's liberality. | Pages 272-275 |
| CHAPTER XXIX TROUT FISHING IN THE ISLE OF MAN — THE SULBY RIVER | |
| Streams of Mona — Snaefell — Beinn-y-Phot — Description of the river — Lost among the mountains — Fishing — The farmers and the law — Solby Bridge — A day with the fly — Solby Glen Hotel — A jubilee day with the worm — Tholty-Will and the Diana fairies | Pages 276-285 |
| CHAPTER XXX THE DOUGLAS RIVER | |
| The Dhoo — Braddan Bridge — Union Mills — Two record days in the Dhoo — The Glass — Tromode — St. George's Bridge — Sea — trout — Mr. Arthur — East Baldwin Stream — West Baldwin Stream — Injabreck — Sport. | Pages 286-294 |
| CHAPTER XXXI THE RIVER NEB | |
| Fosdale Mines — Description of the river — Quine's Mill — Glen Mooar — Glen Helen — Rhenass Waterfall — Good sport with fly and worm — Peel the mouth of a mining sewer | Pages 295-301 |
| CHAPTER XXXII THE LHEN AND OTHER STREAMS | |
| Large trout — Mr. Bernard Brooke — Andreas Church — Charlie's Sport — The eels — Miss Florence Brooke's advice — The spell — Mr. Kelly of Abbeyville — Largest trout — Silver Burn — Sir Walter Scott — Santon Burn — The Colby river — Glen Meay river — Glen Mooar — Glen Wyllin — Glen Dhoo — The Cornah river — Glen Roy — The Isle of Man Fresh-Water Fishery Act — Weight of trout in Mona. | Pages 302-317 |
| CHAPTER XXXIII THE DRY FLY | |
| Mr. Dewar — Mr. Gedney — Walton and Cotton — Lord Lytton — Colonel Hawker — Conclusion | Pages 318-321 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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PAGE |
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| CONTEMPLATION |
Frontispiece |
| RIVER NEB AND SLIEU WHALLIN |
12 |
| KILNSEY |
to face 20 |
| DRUIDALE |
28 |
| ENTRANCE TO APPLEBY CASTLE . |
58 |
| NETHERSIDE . |
118 |
| CONISTONE BRIDGE |
121 |
| BROKEN BROW |
122 |
| MEETING OF THE WATERS |
126 |
| THE FALLS, KILNSEY |
to face 132 |
| SKIRFARE BRIDGE |
136 |
| WASH DUB , |
141 |
| KETTLEWELL BECK |
150 |
| KETTLEWELL BECK |
155 |
| "THEY PUT THEIR RODS THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW" |
159 |
| HAWKSWICK BRIDGE |
165 |
| A LITTLE FIVE-YEAR-OLD(PORT ST. MARY) |
to face 198 |
| EAMONT BRIDGE |
211 |
| FRENCHFIELD |
221 |
| WEIR POOL |
284 |
| BROUGHAM CASTLE |
237 |
| PALEY'S WALK |
to face 239 |
| BROUGHAM BRIDGE |
240 |
| THE ISLAND STREAM |
to face 245 |
| CROWN HOTEL, EAMONT BRIDGE. |
249 |
| RED SCAR STREAM |
253 |
| ROBSON'S ROCK |
to face 256 |
| RED SCAR |
258 |
| THE HUT |
261 |
| AT FRENCHFIELD, OCTOBER 1897 |
264 |
| BIRSTWITH WEIR, NIDD |
to face 272 |
| THE ROAD TO ELLAN VANNIN |
277 |
| SULBY GLEN AND SNAEFELL |
to face 280 |
| SULBY GLEN . |
283 |
| GLEN HELEN |
296 |
| PORT ST. MARY |
to face 305 |
| SILVER BURN |
307 |
| SILVER BURN |
309 |
| COLBY GLEN. |
311 |
| COLBY FALLS |
312 |
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