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we have mentioned, there is still another distinct run of fish of the 
same marking (April and May 1905), which comes on a month later 
(18th July 1907). From the marking it will be observed that the last 
marked fish, when caught on 14th June 1907, was 11 lbs. The next 
fish was caught on 18th July, and weighed 18% lbs.; while the largest 
marked fish, got on oth August, weighed 27 lbs. During the 
month of August marked fish were got almost every day up to the 
20th, when the net-fishing closes. One weighing 15 Ibs. was got on 
the 20th of September on Stanley Water by Mr. F. Martin when 
angling ; and another was caught while we were netting for ova. In 
October some of these fish reach the weight of 30 lbs., and, as was 
said above, begin running about the middle of July and cease in 
December. The earliest of these fish have been in the sea for two 
years and two and a half months, and the latest of them for two years 
and seven months. Those that survive spawn, become kelts, and go 
back to the sea in November and December (1907). Taking the end 
of March 1903 as the time of hatching, it will thus be seen that 
they are four years and nine months old, although if any one had 
asserted a few years ago that fish were from 12 to 30 lbs. on their 
first return from the sea after going down as smolts, and had not 
spawned, he would have been held up to ridicule. 
There is still another run of the same marking, April and May 
1905. This is the great run of winter or spring fish, which, like the 
last run, are in the pink of condition and surpass all the other runs of 
fish. These fish will not spawn till the next November, some of 
them being in the river over a year before spawning. Many of these 
large fish find their way into Loch Tay, Loch Ness, the river Ness, 
the river Garry, and the Spey. A number are also found in the Dee, 
the Tay, the Tummel; the Wye in England; the Boyne and the 
Blackwater in Ireland, and other spring rivers, where large spring fish 
give fine sport at the opening of the season. The two earliest rivers 
in Scotland are the Tay and the Ness. In some seasons the average 
weight of the spring fish caught in Loch Tay has been 22 Ibs., and in 
other seasons over this weight. 
