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fishing above these works is said to have been obtained in 1887, 

 when the river had been in flood from the 19th January to the 

 9th February, and when 37 salmon were taken in Loch 

 Vennacher and 5 in Loch Achray." In more recent years, 

 the number can usually be counted on the fingers of one 

 hand. 



The Report of the Bathymetrical Survey of this loch 1 states 

 that "The loch is deeper in the eastern than in the western 

 portion, the western end being shallow and covered with weeds, 

 so that one must proceed nearly a mile from the west end of 

 the loch before encountering depths of 50 feet, and this is 

 merely a small patch separated from the principal 50-feet 

 depression by a distance of nearly two- thirds of a mile. In 

 August the water in the loch is at its lowest, and the weeds at 

 the west end most abundant. The principal 50-feet depression 

 is about 2 miles in length, with a mean breadth of about 

 one-third of a mile, and a maximum breadth of nearly half 

 a mile. It includes two 100-feet depressions ; the first one is 

 very irregular in shape, situated approximately in the centre 

 of the loch, and contains the greatest observed length [? depth] 

 (111 feet), which lies towards the northern shore ; the second 

 one occupies the central portion of the large 50-feet depression, 

 the greatest depth observed therein being 106 feel). Towards 

 the eastern end of the large 50-feet depression is a small shallow 

 patch in the centre of the loch opposite Portnellan, in which a 

 depth of 36 feet was found." 



The Vennacher Water, or Teith, as it may now be called, 

 flows from the loch for a distance of about 2 miles before 

 it joins with the Leny Water above Callander. The stream 

 is of pleasant character, but somewhat small for salmon 

 angling. 



The general character of the Teith below Callander is that of 

 a pleasantly running stream with a fairly direct course of 

 about 13 miles to the junction with the Forth above Stirling. 

 It is much fringed with trees, and is sometimes rather uniform 

 in its rippling flow, there being rather a lack of holding 

 pools such as might perhaps be artificially induced by the 

 introduction of low weirs or croys. About 2| miles 

 below Callander, the Kelty enters from the north. It is, 

 1 Scottish Geographical Magazine, xvi., No. 4, p. 207. 



