LOCH LEVEN TROUT 



THE Loch Leven trout takes its name 

 from the famous lake or loch of Leven 

 in Kinross-shire, Scotland, to which, 

 if it be not peculiar, it is almost exclu- 

 sively linked in angling tradition. 



This noble expanse of fresh water, 3,500 acres in 

 extent, is the property of Sir Graham Montgomery, 

 who leases it to the Loch Leven Angling Associa- 

 tion for ^1,000 annually. This company supplies 

 the angler with boat and oarsman at a cost of about 

 $7.50 a day, and pays a dividend of ten per cent 

 to the shareholders. The height of Loch Leven 

 above sea-level is 360 feet. It discharges through 

 the Leven River into the Firth of Forth, the mean 

 supply of water to the mill-owners throughout the 

 year amounting to 5,000 cubic feet per minute. 

 Its two most celebrated islands are Queen Mary's 

 Isle, once the abode of the Arch-Druid and favor- 

 ite seat of Pictish prince and Scottish king, whereon 

 stand the ruins of the castle in which Mary, Queen 

 of Scots, was imprisoned, 1567-68 ; and the Inch, 

 now St. Serf's, eighty acres in extent, the site of 



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