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Morven, Kinord, and Monaltrie Waters are on the left bank. 

 The first is a short stretch of about half a mile, which is said to 

 fish well in low water in early summer. Monaltrie extends 

 to between 4 and 5 miles, and belongs to Invercauld. 

 This water has been altered, and not improved, by the 

 action of floods, but it produced 92 fish in 1908. On the 

 right bank, from the termination of Birkhall at Muick Burn, 

 the Glenmuick Water comes in. Then comes Glentana with 

 Cambus o' May opposite. The pools called Tassack and 

 Waterside on the Glentana Water are considered by some to 

 be about the best in the whole river. The whole of the 

 Glentana Water fishes well when the river is fairly high. The 

 Cambus side is, however, much the better when the water is 

 low. From Tassack, or the needle rock just below Tassack, 

 where Cambus ends, Glentana fishes both banks for between 

 4 and 5 miles. Dinnet Bridge divides this splendid fishing 

 into upper and lower beats, and two rods on each beat 

 have plenty of water. One rod has made a score of 25 fish in a 

 day on Glentana ; other great days were 21 and 15 fish. The 

 water is good for over 1,000 fish in a good year. In 1902, 

 for instance, it is reported to have produced 1,097 fish a 

 great total. The average for Glentana is about 900, and the 

 bulk of that total is made in spring. 



Lower Glentana is let to the Huntly Arms Hotel at Aboyne, 

 and is as good hotel water perhaps I should say about the 

 best hotel water as can be found in Scotland. From the 

 opening of the season to the end of May, the hotel fishes not 

 only Lower Glentana, but the Forest of Birse Water, and a 

 further stretch of about 2 miles goes with the hotel the 

 whole season through. The whole is equal to about 8 or 

 9 miles. Mr. Sandeson of the hotel has kindly given me the 

 following records of recent springs : 



1914 ^ . . 451 



1915 179 



1916 " . i . . . . 208 



1917 . .-..-.; .... 121 



1918 245 



1919 189 



1920 1,094 



These figures speak for themselves. 



