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westerly gales raged, aud the "beautiful soft rain" came 

 down in blinding torrents, as if tlie flood-gates of heaven 

 had been lifted, and so my holiday ended with never a 

 chance at those " big 'uns." Well, well, some more lucky 

 dog will, I hope, catch them in time, and tell us how 

 he did it. 



It will be gathered from what I have already said about 

 the fighting powers of these Vyrn^^y trout, that drawn gut 

 is useless, and as for flies, the ordinary Loch Leven patterns 

 all kill well. But I would strongly ad\n^se intending visi- 

 tors not to trouble themselves about flies because you can 

 get everything you want at the hotel, and have the advan- 

 tage of first ascertaining what is the killing fly at that 

 moment in favour with the fish. The lessee of the sporting 

 rights pays great attention to this department, because she 

 knows — as all experienced anglers know — that quite as 

 much depends upon having the right fly on, as depends 

 upon the ability of the angler to use it. 



I ought, perhaps, here to mention the fact that, this 

 season the limit of ten brace to each rod per day has beeii 

 taken off, but a man who is not satisfied with a basket o£ 

 nearly 201b. in return for a ticket costing, by the week, 

 3s. 4d. per day, is a pot-hunter and no sportsman. 



As I have said elsewhere, the whole of the margins of the 

 lake yield good sport, but the trout are roamers and it by 

 no means follows that because you score heavily in one place 

 — or draw a blank — to-day, you "otlU do the same on the 

 morrow. Fish all the edges carefully and don't skip places 

 which you think unlikely, because these often prove the 

 best ; and all the theories of natural lake fishing are value- 

 less in YjTnw}" — it is a law unto itself. My recollection 

 does not serve me as to the precise number of rivers and 

 mountain Avaterfalls there are which flow into the lake, but 

 I remember half a dozen at least, and where these enter are 

 spots which well repay the angler's careful attention. On 

 the other hand, they are not the places which you should 

 run after ; fish your bank along, honestly and fairly, and 

 take these inlets as you come to them, otherwise you may, 

 like that legendary snarleyow, grasp the shadow and lose 



