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from the river, and some three miles above Loch 

 Garry, kept by Mr Robinson, a worthy man, who, 

 as well as his wife, does all that he can to promote 

 the comfort of his guests, and told me " he liked 

 to see gentlemen have their sport satisfactory and 

 peaceable." It was somewhat too late in the year, 

 we were told, for much sport to be expected, so 

 far as the Lake Trout were concerned ; but under 

 the auspices of John Cameron, whom we had 

 brought with us from Invergarry a very handy 

 and decent fellow, and withal so fond of fishing 

 that he has earned for himself the soubriquet of 

 "The Cormorant "we determined to have a trial 

 at all events. We accordingly set to work trailing 

 in the lochs (using simple spinning-tackle like that 

 described in page 9 et seq.) with a parr or small trout 

 for bait, and having a line (about thirty or forty 

 yards) out on either side of the stern, whilst the 

 boat was rowed slowly up and down over the most 

 likely parts of the water. It seemed at first that 

 the fears which had been expressed with refer- 

 ence to the lateness of the season were likely to 

 prove correct, for during the first two days the 

 result of our trailing was only some four or five 

 dozen Brown Trout, running from about a quarter 

 of a pound to a pound and a half. As this was 



