THE HAPPY FISHERMAN. By Walter M. Gallichan. (Heath Cranton. 10s.
6d.)
GALLICRAN has a chapter in his reminiscences of Fifty Years Adventure with the Rod which suggests attractive pos... sibilities for combining the joys of foreign travel with an
angler's holiday. He writes in detail about streams in Luxem- bourg and the Ardennes, where trout abound, and in some places grayling also. Spring is the time to go there. The bulk of his book has to do with trout streams and lakes in Wales.
Scotland he has visited only occasionally ; Ireland, apparently, never : and salmon say nothing to him. But he has two chapters on mixed fishing (in the Thames and its tributaries and in the Norfolk Broads) which prove a catholic taste. Mr. Gallichan is none of your angling pedants. Catching fish in fresh water is his delight, and he knows that every branch of the art has its own skill and its own fascination. He is on the side of those who hold that the wet fly is most killing when fished down stream—not up—provided you can throw a long line. Dry fly he fishes when it is the best way to catch fish, and not because there is a sacramental obligation to employ it and it only.
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