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enced salmon-fisher, pronounced it as ' one 

 of these late-running fish of last year ! ' We 

 confess not perfectly to understand it. 1 



Again, in the upper waters of the Endrick 

 a Stirlingshire stream on the 1st Septem- 

 ber we found trout running both milt and 

 ova so universally that we stopped fishing. 

 Yet on many lochs and rivers trout are per- 

 fectly fit to kill and eat in September, and 

 even in some (lochs, at least) as late as 

 October. At St. Fillans, on Loch Earn, we 

 have caught trout which were perfectly good 

 on the table in October, when, at the same 

 time, on the small tributaries of Euchil 

 Water, we found trout pushing their noses 

 upon the edges of the ' divots ' and among 

 the grassy runlets full of spawn. 



Dark -red salmon still pushing up as 

 spawners were caught by rod on the Oich 

 in March 1898, which could scarcely have 



1 But we look upon this instance as a proof that a 

 salmon which had evidently only just completed her 

 spawning operations dashed hungrily at the Devon 

 minnow. It would have been interesting to have dis- 

 sected this fish and observed the condition of her stomach, 

 in connection with the question of ' salmon feeding in 

 fresh water.' (See Fishery Board Report, Blue Book, 

 1898.) 



