AUTUMN ANGLING ON THE LYON. 



WHEN tenant of the shootings of Garth, in Perth- 

 shire, in the summer of 1858, I had obtained leave, 

 through the interest of my kind landlord with the 

 liberal proprietor, to fish salmon over nearly the 

 whole of the river Lyon. The privilege, so freely 

 accorded, was no common boon ; for, in addition 

 to the high rate at which salmon angling is now 

 held, this river flowed through a singularly pic- 

 turesque district of oak-wood, moorland, and moun- 

 tain, while the well-separated and finely- defined 

 pools gave ample scope for a full and powerful 

 cast. 



As comparatively few of the larger fish ascended 

 the higher waters of the Lyon, I seldom wandered 

 above the heavy streams, where the best salmon, 



