"If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked"

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Title

"If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked"

Subject

Lough Derg--Henry Newland--Politics--Debate

Description

"'If ever an otter is admissible,' said the Parson,' it is so on such a lake as this. You certainly never get a day's fair fishing here.'…"

Creator

Henry Newland, 1804-1860

Source

Newland, Henry, The Erne, Its Legends and Its Fly-Fishing, p. 226

Publisher

Chapman and Hall, London

Date

1851

Contributor

Digitised by Internet Archive, originally from University of California

Rights

Public domain

Format

xiv, 395 p. plates. 20 cm

Language

English

Type

Fishing memoirs

Identifier

DD_0185

Coverage

54.620679, -7.902967

References

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t4qj7g05s

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"'If ever an otter is admissible,' said the Parson,' it is so on such a lake as this. You certainly never get a day's fair fishing here.'

'That is what people always say whenever they happen to have a bad day's sport,' replied the Captain ; 'they protest against the otter generally, but think that an exception ought to be made in their own particular case. My opinion is, that it ought to be contraband altogether ; it is merely drawing upon principle. A man gets a good day's fishing with it, if such clumsy work can be called fishing, and this lasts just till the fish are up to it, and no longer ; after which it turns out that he has made the fish shy, spoiled his own sport, and ruined that of his neighbours entirely. If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked ; and I would begin with the Squire.'

'They do that same, I am told, on some of the Scotch lakes,' said the Parson."

Original Format

Monograph

Citation

Henry Newland, 1804-1860, “"If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked",” Digital Derg: A Deep Map, accessed March 29, 2024, https://digitalderg.eu/items/show/203.

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