SOME FISHING RECORDS 



pools, and thousands leaping in the sea. We got 

 several to take the fly in salt water, but generally 

 caught what we required for the table by letting the 

 fly sink in the middle of a shoal and foul- hooking 

 one. In the salt-water bay at the mouth of the river 

 the air seemed full of salmon, hundreds leaping out 

 of the water at the same time, while shoals of 

 50 to 2,000 or more kept on swimming slowly round 

 and round past the mouth of the river close to the 

 surface, with their dorsal fin appearing above the 

 water. Towards the middle of August the fish 

 commenced to die from a disease which attacked 

 them on the head and gills, and great numbers were 

 found dead at each low tide. The only chance of 

 saving the fish was to make an artificial spate, and so 

 let them up the river, Collecting all the available 

 men about the place (about fifteen in all) we set to 

 work, and after about four hours' hard work succeeded 

 in deepening the outlet from Loch Langabhat about 

 a foot. We then went down to the lower end of the 

 first loch, and constructed a strong dam of turfs and 

 rocks across the river at its exit from the lake. In 

 five days from that time the water in the first loch 

 had risen a foot, and on August 21 the dam was 

 knocked away, and a good spate came down the river. 

 A small shoal of about thirtv salmon was the first 



