SMALL HIGHLAND STREAMS 



experience of 1892 before referred to, was seven 

 salmon, and I have several times caught six. 



Some unique features are presented by the fishing 

 at Cambusmore, on the east coast of Scotland — one of 

 the few places where salmon take the fly actually in 

 the sea — and Mr. Henry Graham, who leased it 

 from the Duke of Sutherland for several years, has, at 

 my request, supplied me with the following interesting 

 account of its peculiarities : — 



1 The foundation of the fishing was a little stream 

 absurdly misnamed the " Fleet," which meandered — or 

 for the most part stood still — over a short course of 

 seven or eight miles, until it was artificially discharged 

 into a sea loch of the same name. Most of its passage 

 was through marshy land which had been, early in the 

 century, reclaimed from the sea by a high embank- 

 ment called the " Mound,*' over which the main road 

 ran, and in which flood gates, opened twice in the 

 twenty-four hours, allowed the accumulated fresh 

 waters to run into the loch. Above the Mound was a 

 lake of brackish water, in which, as well as on the sea 

 side, it was possible for a wader to obtain with a fair 

 breeze a good basket of sea trout. But the salmon 

 fishing proper of the so-called river was concentrated 

 in two long pools higher up, which, except under some 

 exceptional spate, or for the short time during which 



