THE STINCHAR 401 



and Colmonell or Bardrochat are reported to have yielded 15, 

 45, 12, 50, 10, and 8 = 140. 



A net is used in the river near Pinwherry, which naturally 

 tells against the stock of fish above that point. 



The Stinchar has two tributaries, the Tig and the Duisk, 

 both of which enter from the south. The Tig is little more 

 than a burn, but since it joins the main river only about 2 

 miles from the mouth, it offers at times a good entrance for 

 sea-trout, which, as a rule, prefer not to run far from the salt 

 water. It has a course of about 8 miles from its source at the 

 Wee Fell, runs north and then west. Over the hills to the west 

 of its source rises the Water of App, a remarkably straight little 

 stream, which flows south-west right into the mouth of Loch 

 Ryan. It is rather striking that although no stream other 

 than a burn enters at the head of Loch Ryan, bag nets fish 

 successfully all around its shores. In the loch is the best 

 oyster fishery in Scotland. 



The Duisk is a very considerable stream, which rises from 

 several small burns close to the head waters of the Bladenoch, 

 or otherwise, to the borders of Wigtownshire, east of the railway 

 line, and flows about 9| miles to the Stinchar at Pinwherry 

 Railway Station. Pinwherry is the station for Ballantrae and 

 the river Stinchar generally. This Duisk has on its banks a 

 Kildonan House, a name usually associated amongst fishermen 

 with the distant Helmsdale. 



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