Becalmed on the Lake

Becalmed on the Lake

Lough Derg--Henry Newland--Fishing--Wind

"But the breeze gradually dropped. Large splashes of calm, glazy-looking water appeared here and there, spreading by little and little over the whole surface, while the rises became more and more infrequent, and, before a dozen fish had been caught, ceased altogether..."

Henry Newland, 1804-1860

Newland, Henry, The Erne, Its Legends and Its Fly-Fishing, pp. 222-23

Chapman and Hall, London

1851

Digitised by Internet Archive, originally from University of California

Public domain

xiv, 395 p. plates. 20 cm

English

Fishing memoirs

DD_0182

54.620679, -7.902967

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

"But the breeze gradually dropped. Large splashes of calm, glazy-looking water appeared here and there, spreading by little and little over the whole surface, while the rises became more and more infrequent, and, before a dozen fish had been caught, ceased altogether. Slievan had fairly given it up, and was asleep with his mouth open at the bottom of the boat ; and M'Gowan was putting the finishing touches to some buzz-flies which he had been making ever since the boat had left the Purgatory ; the lines were still cast across the water, but lazily and mechanically, — the thoughts of the fishermen were evidently elsewhere."

Monograph