i8 ANGLING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



the second best salmon river in the county, and the Shin 

 one of the best rivers in the Highlands. 



As for the lochs, one might almost be pardoned for using 

 the familiar expression that their name is legion. Loch 

 Lomond, between Dumbarton and Stirlingshire ; Loch 

 Awe, in Argyllshire ; Lochs Tay, Rannoch, Earn, and 

 Katrine, in Perthshire ; Lochs Ness, Lochie, and Lagan, 

 Liverness-shire ; Lochs Maree, Luichart, and Fannich, in 

 Ross-shire, at once occur to us ; while below the Grampians 

 there are Loch Leven, with its wonderful fishing, and St. 

 Mary's Loch in the Yarrow country. Some of these grand 

 sheets of water contain the destructive pike, and perch, 

 which are only less fatal to trout by reason of their smaller 

 size. But in the hundreds of lochs which lie twinkling 

 within the hollows of the bonny Scotch mountains there 

 is an abundance of small trout, and heavy specimens of 

 the Salmo fario, while many are inhabited by the gi-eat 

 lake trout, the night prowler that so seldom takes a fly, 

 and to which the name oiferox has been aptly given. 



Ireland is not so much patronised by English anglers as 

 Scotland, though there is more and cheaper general sport 

 at his command. The Green Island, manifold as are its 

 physical beauties and angling capabilities, has been not 

 a little neglected. Of late years there has been some 

 excuse, perhaps, for timorous tourists, though surely never 

 was fear more ungrounded ; but to the angler, for some 

 incomprehensible reason, Ireland has never been such an 

 attraction as Scotland, though, as I have hinted, a stranger 

 who can only afford to expend a moderate amount of money 

 in his amusements, and desires a variety of fishing, would 

 do much better in Ireland than in Scotland. The largest 

 pike in Europe, I believe, are roaming in the depths of the 

 big lakes ; it is the land par excellence of the white trout ; 



