210 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



At Moy Bridge the river flows evenly over a clean gravel bed, 

 and presently divides round a considerable island. The mouth 

 of the Orrin is two miles below the bridge, and from the bridge 

 to the cruives is generally considered the best spring angling. 

 Seaforth's fishings commence at the bridge, and continue on 

 the left bank to the mouth of the river, and on the right bank 

 from the mouth of the Orrin downwards. In the future the 

 fly rather than the net will continue to ply, I hope, on the 

 water below the cruives. 



Seaforth's Brahan Castle fishings have in the past been 

 commonly let from the opening till the end of April. I have 

 known of 56 fish being taken by two rods during the first ten 

 days. Mr. W. Berry killed 369 to his own rod previous to 

 the end of April ; and in the spring of 1921 Mr. Wilson had 160 

 fish during the month of March. 



The spring fish of the Conon are of the small class, 8-10 lb., 

 and are shapely and, in my opinion, of uncommonly good 

 flavour. 



The cruive dykes are situated where an island of perhaps 60 

 acres or so divides the river into a right and left channel. This 

 island is situated opposite Conon House, and about a mile above 

 Conon Bridge on the high road from the Muir of Ord to Ding- 

 wall. The left channel is intercepted at its upper end by a dyke 

 built right across to the upper end of the island. The other 

 channel continues with a wide sweep round half the island before 

 the dyke is thrown across in a long jf-shaped formation. The 

 left or upper cruive dyke has one fishing box ; the lower cruive 

 has three boxes. Only the box next the island used to be 

 fished, the others being closed by hecks. The photograph 

 shows this cruive box with its inscales in place in fishing order. 

 It will be readily appreciated how little chance the upper 

 waters have had with this sort of device as the only passage 

 for fish except during the weekly close time. 



RIVER MEIG 



The total length of this river is about 24 miles, or double the 

 length of the Conon, which it joins at Little Scatwell. Two- 

 thirds up from its mouth Loch Beannachan exists at a level of 

 465 feet, or nearly twice that of Loch Luichart. There is a 



