THE ULLAPOOL 



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Year. 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 



Salmon and 

 Grilse. 

 10 

 3 



12 

 19 

 29 



Sea 

 Trout. 

 41 

 84 

 57 

 22 

 56 



Salmon and 



Sea 



Year. 

 1904 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 



Grilse. Trout. 



8 21 



13 47 



33 61 



31 115 



20 100 



In the years when the salmon totals are small, the brown 

 trout totals are usually extra large, which suggests that the 

 shooting tenants preferred to have the comparative certainty 

 of good brown trout baskets to the chance of a salmon. For 

 instance, in 1901 there were 659 brown trout, in 1904 there 

 were 802. The year 1906 was a good all-round fishing year : 

 three spring salmon, 20 summer and autumn salmon, 10 grilse, 

 61 sea- trout, and 821 brown trout. To complete the bag I 

 may add five rainbow trout the best total which has ever 

 been got here after turning down about 10,000 fry. This 

 makes a total for 1906 of 920 fish. 



In explanation of the great amount of brown trout fishing, 

 I may state that Druimruinie Lodge has some nine or ten 

 lochs it can fish. In a case such as this, therefore, the record 

 of salmon caught is really no indication of what might be got 

 were salmon fishing made a regular and serious part of the 

 season's sport. Anglers frequently do not come till August, 

 and the gun is then more commonly taken out than the rod. 

 Salmon fishing is a sort of attractive extra suitable for " off 

 days." 



ULLAPOOL RIVER 



This little river, which flows from the Forest of Rhidorroch, 

 has its source at a very high altitude at the extreme head of 

 Glen Douchary. In its course of nearly 15 miles it receives 

 three names. Down the glen mentioned, it flows in a northerly 

 direction to within a short distance of Loch-na-Daimh, from 

 which the Einig flows to the Oykell and so to the Kyle of 

 Sutherland at Bonar Bridge. In this section it is called the 

 Douchary. At the point mentioned it turns sharp to the left 

 and descends Glen Achallt, where it is called the Bhidorroch 

 River. The lodge of the same name stands upon the left 

 bank. It then passes into Loch Achallt, a sheet of water 

 about a mile and three-quarters in length, and from the foot 



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