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PRELIMINARY REPORT 



ON THE 



LAKE OF .... AS AN ANGLING 

 LOCH FOE TROUT. 



THE season being unsuitable for a proper investigation 

 into the food-bearing capacity of the Lake of . . ., 

 I have prepared this interim report from my general 

 personal knowledge of the district. I feel no doubt that 

 the Lake of ... is capable of being converted into 

 a first-class sporting trout loch ; but at present I am 

 unable to state approximate cost. I append, however, 

 certain calculations which will serve as a guide to the 

 Meeting. 



GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



Pike and perch are plentiful, and the pike at least 

 will require thinning. Yearling Loch Leven trout will 

 hold their own against perch smaller burn trout will 

 not it is merely a question of the size of the "yearling." 



PIKE. 



The modes of thinning down pike are so well-known 

 that I need not enter into the matter here, further than 

 to remind the Meeting that reducing the number of pike 

 is more easily accomplished before spawning, which is 

 from March to May in this district, and that netting 



