CHAPTER VIII 

 RIVER UGIE 



ANGLING SEASON : 25th February to 15th November. 

 NETTING SEASON : 25th February to 9th September. 



District Fishery Board sits in Peterhead. 



The inland parts of the district of Buchan form a flat plain, 

 where the old land surface has been worn down by great 

 denudation. Only one or two slight rises exist, one of these 

 being dignified by the name of hill the Hill of Mormond 

 standing 769 feet above the sea. 'In this flat or only gently 

 undulating country the Ugie cuts its way with many a winding 

 to the sea at Peterhead. The main section of the river is only 

 some 6 miles in length, two head streams of considerable 

 length, though of rather small volume, uniting abruptly at 

 the Haughs of Rora, near the village of Longside. The North 

 Water of Ugie and the South Water of Ugie are about 16 and 

 18 miles long respectively, the latter being named in its most 

 inland part the Water of Fedderat. The maximum length of 

 the river may therefore be said to be 24 miles. 



A remarkable circumstance about the North Water is that 

 it rises within 2| miles of the sea at Aberdour Bay in the Moray 

 Firth, and within a short distance of a burn which flows into 

 that bay, yet its waters enter the sea on the east coast as 

 described. The appropriate name of the rise in the land 

 which determines the initial course of this stream is Windyheads 

 Hill. There is not much shelter in this region, though here and 

 there rich woods surround such places as Pitfour or the Old 

 Castle of Brucklay on the South Water ; but the streams are 

 frequently cut down in pleasantly fertile dells unsuspected as 

 the eye ranges over the wide expanse of land. Some distinctly 



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