SMALL HIGHLAND STREAMS 



experience of 1892 before referred to, was seven 

 salmon, and I have several times caught six. 



Sonic unique features are presented by the fishing 

 at Cambusmore, on the east coast of Scotland one of 

 the few places where salmon take the fly actually in 

 the sea and Mr. Henry (Iraham, who leased it 

 from the Duke of Sutherland for several years, has, at 

 my request, supplied me with the following interesting 

 account of its peculiarities : 



' The foundation of the fishing was a little stream 

 absurdly misnamed the " Fleet," which meandered or 

 for the most part stood still over a short course of 

 seven or eight miles, until it was artificially discharged 

 into a sea loch of the same name. Most of its passage 

 was through marshy land which had been, early in the 

 century, reclaimed from the sea by a high embank- 

 ment called the " Mound," over which the main road 

 ran, and in which flood gates, opened twice in the 

 twenty-four hours, allowed the accumulated fresh 

 waters to run into the loch. Above the Mound was a 

 lake of brackish water, in which, as well as on the sea 

 side, it was possible for a wader to obtain with a fair 

 breeze a good basket of sea trout. Ikit the salmon 

 fishing proper of the so-called river was concentrated 

 in two long pools higher up, which, except under some 

 exceptional spate, or for the short time during which 



