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THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



Year. Spring. Autumn. Total. 



1907 . 72 33 105 



1908 . 101 44 145 



I am indebted to Mr. Lyle for permission to give the following 

 record separating spring from autumn fish : 



Year. Spring. Autumn. Total. 



1904 . . 34 36 70 



1905 . . 30 43 73 



1906 . . 81 19 100 



In 1913 Glendelvine alone produced 71 spring fish, three- 

 fourths of which were taken from one pool. This shows the 

 recent increase in spring fishing, which is remarked in most 

 of the lower Tay fishings. 



In the whole Tay district there are ninety-five separate 

 fishings assessed each year, some of which, however, are net 

 fisheries pure and simple. There is a marked contrast in the 

 Tay district as compared with the Tweed as to the amount of 

 money necessary for carrying on the business of protection 

 and regulation. The Tay, with its high rental, has a rate of 

 6 per cent., yielding about 1,400. The Tweed, with its rental 

 of 15,000, has an assessment of 20 per cent., yielding about 

 3,000. This signifies inter alia the poaching difficulties to be 

 encountered in one district as compared with another. 



Above the Bridge of Perth, exclusive of tributaries, there are 

 thirty proprietors who hold rights of salmon fisheries qualify- 

 ing for assessment. 



The fishings in the Tay above the junction of the Tummel 

 at Logierait are, like the Dalguise fishings, chiefly productive 

 in the spring. The autumn fish which yield so much sport 

 in the lower waters do not ascend so far before the season 

 finishes. Some of the water between Logierait and Grandtully 

 is even-flowing and rather sluggish. Just above Grandtully 

 Bridge a considerable rapid occurs as the river descends 

 amongst rocks below a partial weir. Above this, beautiful 

 streams and pools exist in Findynate, Killiechassie, Grandtully, 

 and Edradynate, and again further up at Weem, where, 

 however, the water does not yield very many salmon. At 

 Edradynate the system of croy-building has been carefully 

 developed by Mr. H. W. Johnston, so that in one large pool 

 alone represented in the photograph with Mr. Johnston in 

 his Norwegian boat there are eleven croys. It is well named 

 the Croy Pool. 



The fish taken in this topmost stretch of the river between 



