NOTES ON SALMONID^E 19 



As regards the upper waters, Munro says, " Loch Awe 

 is much about the same as formerly, i.e. about the same as 

 regards its capabilities as a trouting sheet of water, but Loch 

 Gruagach is very little fished, and I can say but little about 

 it. I am of the opinion that the trout are not so plentiful 

 (i.e. generally) as they were when I came here first." Munro 

 came to Inchnadamph, I think, the same year that Mr. John 

 Sutherland took up innkeeping at Inchnadamph, and one 

 year before I first visited that delightful place, viz. in 

 1865. 



Desiring some more exact particulars, I asked a series 

 of questions to be answered by Mr. Wallace, who has had 

 the fishings of the Upper Inver since 1894. The following 

 statements are the results : 



The proportion of the short, thick salmon and grilses now killed 

 is, I believe, more than half the total number taken. 



The fish taken on the south side of the loch are the new fish. 



Both varieties, and also what seems a cross, are got on the 

 north side. 



I am sorry I cannot give you the details as to the number of 

 J. Munro's grilses, but I herewith send a list of the takes since 1894. 



The distinct improvement in the quality of the salmon was just 

 beginning to show itself when I first came here in 1894. A few 

 were killed yearly before that time, but no appreciable improvement 

 was evident till about six or seven years ago. 



The old fish seem now to be rapidly disappearing. An occasional 

 salmon is got in the Trailigil River, but as yet there has been no 

 trace of fish in the Lochan Glynne burns (i.e. the burn which joins 

 the Inver below Lochan Neaski). 



N.B. I have added the list of fish obtained since 1894 

 to my records, going back to I 865. Of course Mr. Wallace's 

 score relates to fish killed both on the Inver and on Loch 

 Assynt, but my older fishings refer for the most part to 

 the Inver, Upper and Lower. I do not give all these statistics 

 here, as that would be a little out of place ; but I may 

 mention that two rods on the Inver used to get from 

 thirty to fifty fish in the month of July. One season we 

 got forty-nine fish, but tried in vain to kill the fiftieth one. 

 This was in the early days of August, when short rising 

 was the order of the day. The river was full of fish, and 

 many were risen, pricked, and light -hooked. I shall have 



