378 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



Sea-trout. 



127 1,464 

 152 668 



90 311 



69 343 



149 477 



163 623 



71 900 



98 496 



123 643 



Of brown trout the annual catch may be said to vary from 200 

 to 1,000. 



The above figures show a material improvement in the 

 salmon catch (very largely fly), and some excellent days have 

 been experienced. Both in 1919 and 1920, one rod killed 

 5 salmon in a day (60 Ib. and 50 Ib. respectively). In 1914, 

 a rod killed 4 salmon in a day, and in 1913 the Secretary of 

 the Association, Mr. Henry Lamond, Luss, killed 3 salmon, 

 4 sea- trout and 1 brown trout (47 Ib.) in a day. The 

 heaviest salmon, to date, was a fish of 42 Ib. killed in 

 1912. 



The streams which enter the loch on the west side are, in 

 order going northwards, the Fruin, Finlas, Luss, and Douglas 

 Waters. These are good streams for sea-trout as the season 

 advances, if there is sufficient rain to keep up a good flow of 

 water. Only one river enters on the eastern side, the Endrick, 

 and this forms the main line of ascent for salmon. 



This river rises in the high undulating country to the south- 

 east of Loch Lomond, and after a hill course of a few miles, 

 descends the Loup of Fintry by three falls, calculated at 94 

 feet in height. From this total obstruction to the ascent of 

 salmon to the mouth of the river the distance is about 21 

 miles. For a distance of 10 miles or so below the Loup the 

 river presents a fine succession of pools and streams, with 

 much beautiful spawning ground ; then for a few miles the 

 bed is rather deeply cut in steep pastoral and, at times, richly- 

 wooded land where, in the neighbourhood of Gartness, two 

 rocky barriers are passed which require special mention ; then 

 lower down, where the railway viaduct crosses west of Drymen 

 Station, the river passes through flat meadows and the beautiful 

 woods round Buchanan Castle, the residence of the Duke of 



