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spring that must have been 25 lb. or 30 lb. 

 weight, and a great many of them. But the 

 Laxay fish were, I think, larger than the Black- 

 water fish, and they certainly were a great deal 

 better. 



Besides these two rivers, there were at the 

 west side smaller rivers and lochs — the Car- 

 lowy loch and river, and part of the Bhragair 

 and Sharbost rivers, which no doubt held fish ; 

 for oS" Carlo wy Head was a good netting station. 

 They were not, however, worth much for 

 angling ; at least, though I often tried, I never 

 did much in them. I have caught a sea- trout 

 and a salmon or two ; but they are not rising 

 rivers. A non-rising river, of which I have 

 seen many, is to my mind useless for angling 

 purposes, and you had best consign it to the 

 nets. There were also dotted all over the shoot- 

 ing fresh- water lochs innumerable, in which were 

 good store of brownies. I never could get 

 them to rise as they should to trout-flies, used 

 in fair angling fashion, though they would rise 

 to ottering ; but one doesn't lose one's time on 

 a good day at that, with salmon to kill. More^ 

 over, they were the worst brownies to eat I 

 ever tried. 



Thus, I think I have shown that Soval as it 

 was had within its boundaries great attraction 



