168 A HUNDKED YEARS IN THE HIGHLANDS 



he caught 122, 107, and 100 fish ! Mr. W. L. Boase 

 and party arrived at Inverewe on the 1st of June and 

 fished thirty-eight days. They caught 2,384 trout, 

 weighing 900J pounds, and let go between 400 and 500 

 which were under half a pound. I remember that one 

 day Mr. Boase, who was himself an old man, and a friend 

 of his, a Mr. Lindsay, who was an octogenarian, were 

 fishing on one of our lesser lochs, near the Fionn Loch, 

 in quite a small boat, when both of them hooked a 

 trout at the same moment. The two fish were safely 

 secured, and a pretty pair they were, of 5 pounds and 

 8 pounds. On landing, the two fish were laid side by side 

 on a slab of rock and photographed. On the same small 

 loch I have known of an 11-pound ferox being caught 

 with a small trout fly. Another day a son of Mr. Boase 

 was fishing from the bank close to the Fionn Loch 

 Pier with three small flies, when he hooked a big fish 

 which took him over an hour to land. When weighed 

 it turned the scales at 10 pounds. Eight of Mr. Boase's 

 trout were over 4 pounds and weighed as follows: 

 10 pounds, 10 pounds, 9 pounds, 8 pounds, 7^ pounds, 

 6 J pounds, 5 pounds, and 4 J pounds. 



But perhaps the best record of all was that made by 

 Mr. F. C. McGrady, and I give an exact copy of his own 

 account of his fishing on p. 167. 



