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impossible. A shoal of fish kept moving about the pool, 

 headed by a salmon of 15 Ib. or 16 lb., now approaching the 

 pure water inflow at the top of the pool, again retiring to the 

 brackish water further back. 



If the number of fish taken be small, the size of individual 

 fish is sometimes great, and the " playing " proclivities remark- 

 ably active. The record fish is one of 50 lb., killed on the fly, 

 by Grant, the Pool House keeper. Several fish over 30 lb. 

 have also been taken. 



The Ewe is, I consider, a river which will be most readily 

 restored to a condition for good angling by reverting to some- 

 thing analogous to the artificial obstructions of its better days. 

 The loch need not be raised so as to flood farms at Kinlochewe, 

 and in any case it is not desirable to make the river steeper than 

 it is or to have recourse to any barrier thrown completely across 

 the stream. The most suitable line of action, in my view, is 

 to have resort to the building of a large croy, or imperfect 

 barrier, where the last cruive dyke existed, and at the same 

 time to make certain minor alterations at the old cruive pool. 

 This suggestion was indeed acted upon by Mr. Kenneth Clark, 

 then tenant of Pool House, and a barrier was commenced and 

 well-nigh completed in the early days of the War. Unfortu- 

 nately it had to be abandoned owing to the calls of national 

 service, and before it was resumed Mr. Clark's tenancy ended. 



One cannot but regret that so fine an opportunity of restoring 

 the angling of this beautiful river should have to be left thus 

 incomplete. 



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This magnificent loch is usually a disappointment so far as 

 salmon are concerned, because it is chiefly fished in summer 

 when only sea-trout are to be got, and the water is much 

 fished by visitors at Loch Maree Hotel and Eanlochewe. 

 From the former 12 loch beats are fished by 12 boats, and 

 four or five boats fish from Kinlochewe. An angler attempting 

 the sport in May has made, recently, as high a score as 32 in 

 three weeks. The narrow channel already referred to as 

 occurring at the outlet, in the bay where the Inveran river 



