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grilse fly, or by trolling with a small fish. The fly, I 

 believe, is preferable, there being numbers of pike to 

 snap at a spinning bait. 



At no great distance from Ledgowan, and in the 

 neighbourhood of Auchnasheen, lies Loch Koshk, a 

 considerable sheet of water, affording very superior 

 angling. Its trout, like those in the places already 

 mentioned, attain to a large size, and may be captured 

 by a good angler in considerable numbers. 



I am not personally acquainted with many other 

 lochs worthy of recommendation in the eastern districts 

 of Eoss-shire. There are, it is true, Lochs Garve or 

 Making, through which the Black-water runs, Ussie 

 and Kinellan, near Strathpeffer, all of which contain 

 quantities of pike ; and as to Loch Garve, and a smaller 

 sheet of water in its vicinity, they boast of some good 

 trout, but these are scarcely worth wasting our patience 

 upon, being so dull and capricious. The inky nature 

 of the water which they inhabit seems indeed to injure 

 their appetite for the fly. Perhaps there is no stream 

 in Scotland so dark in its colour, during summer, as the 

 Black-river. Such, in fact, is its quality in this respect > 

 that salmon ascending it have been known to become 

 perfectly foul-hued in the course of forty hours. 



Such is the substance of a communication made to the 



club by one of its members, regarding some of the 



waters in Easter Ross-shire. No mention, we perceive,. 



is made of Loch Moir, lying at the extremity of Wy vis, 



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