CHAPTER II 

 FORTH DISTRICT 



RIVERS : FORTH, TEITH, LENY, AND ALLAN. 

 LOCHS : VENNACHER, ACHRAY, LUBNAIG, VOIL, AND DOINE. 



ANGLING SEASON: February 1st to October 31st. 

 NETTING SEASON: February llth to August 26th. 



District Fishery Board sits in Stirling. 



This district is peculiar in that it is of very extensive area, 

 has an exceptionally large sea firth, and a comparatively short 

 fresh water course. It extends from Fife Ness, at the mouth of 

 the Firth of Forth, on the north, through part of Fife, Kinross, 

 Clackmannan, Perthshire, Stirlingshire, and the three Lothian 

 counties, to the boundary between Haddington and Berwick- 

 shire on the south, where it " marches " with the Tweed 

 District. The shores of the Firth of Forth are for the most 

 part sandy, the eastern portion of Fife and the coast of 

 Haddington being steep and rocky. On the sandy shores fly 

 nets and bag nets are fished in considerable numbers, those 

 on the Fife coast being the most productive. On this stretch 

 a marked fish from the Deveron was taken in 1907. It was 

 marked eighteen months before recapture and had gained 7J 

 Ib. The rocky section is fished by bag nets alone. 



From a salmon fishing point of view the estuary of the Forth 

 is fixed a short distance to the east of the Forth Bridge, by an 

 imaginary line drawn from the Hound Point on the south shore 

 to St. David's Point on the north. From the town of Stirling 

 this estuary measures 31^ miles, and has on it such towns as 

 Alloa, Kincardine, Grangemouth, where the Forth and Clyde 

 Canal enters, Bo'ness, and Queensferry, and now the important 

 town and naval station of Rosyth. The " Links of Forth," 

 in their extraordinary windings between Stirling and Alloa, 



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