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the substance. I emphasise this advice, because the fish here 

 are roaming- in search of food, and you never know where 

 you may drop across a lot of them, and convert a bad begin- 

 ning into a " limit " score. 



As a truthful chronicler, I am compelled to mention the 

 fact that the lake contains some chub, and it is equally true 

 that they provoke to wi-ath those anglers in whom the old 

 Adam has not been subdued. I am one of those. In the 

 shallow bays, at the head of the lake, these wTetched logger- 

 heads are the most troublesome, and the lessee wages an 

 incessant war against them, and at spawning time plays 

 havoc amongst them with the net. I am not disposed to say 

 that they are an unmitigated evil because I had abundant 

 proof that the Loch Levens feed upon the chub fry. Several 

 trout of a pound, which I caught, disgorged a handful of 

 bab}' chub when knocked on the head, and it strikes me 

 very forcibly that the phenomenal growth of these Loch 

 Levens is thus explained. Two pounds in two years fi'om 

 imported fry is certainly a remarkable record in artificial 

 trout culture, and this was done in Vyrnwj'. The lake 

 teems with pound trout, and although they are not so 

 thick as to be " squeezing each other out on the bank " like 

 Pat's salmon, yet they are plentiful enough to yield a good 

 basket every day to anyone avIio can fish at all, with a two- 

 pounder, maybe at the head of the score. Yes, it is real 

 good fishing, and I know of no other place where you can 

 get anything like it. 



The lessee has expended a large sum of money in con- 

 structing a hatchery, and she is therefore able not only to 

 replace every fish that is caught by putting m fresh stock, 

 but will alSt) be able to turn, year by year, many thousands 

 of two-year-olds into the lake. This is as it should be, if 

 high-class sport is to be maintained, and there should be a 

 great future before this undertaking. It affords ample 

 space for twenty men in boats, and as many bank anglers, 

 to fish at one time vi-itho\it in any way interfering with each 

 other's sport, and next to Loch Katrine, V^Tuwy deserves 

 to rank as one of the most beautiful lakes in the United 

 Kino'dom. 



