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" It flows out of Loch Lochy by an artificial 

 channel, and, after a course of about eight miles, 

 falls into Loch Eil near Fort- William. It belongs 

 almost entirely to the trustees of the late Lord 

 Abinger, who have the right to practically all the 

 salmon fishing in the lordship of Lochaber. Spring 

 and autumn are both good for salmon on the river, 

 which affords excellent sea-trout fishing also. The 

 salmon vary from 9 Ibs. to 47 Ibs. The river and 

 the estuary are carefully protected ; but there is 

 considerable difficulty in suppressing poachers in 

 the estuary. The stock of fish has not increased 

 in recent years. It has been practically stationary. 

 The lack of progress is chiefly attributable to the 

 increase of stake and bag nets on the coast." 



The MOIDART, an Inverness- shire stream about 

 six miles long, has a loch of about ten acres on its 

 course, two miles from the mouth. For three miles 

 above the loch it is deep and sluggish, flowing 

 through peat. Then it has a rapid fall to the sea, 

 with seven or eight pleasant little salmon pools. 

 Mr. J. C. Stewart, Glenmoidart, writes : 



" A good many salmon and sea-trout run up in 

 spring and summer, and some of these remain in 

 the pools below the loch ; but most of them run 

 straight into the loch and into the deep water above. 

 The sea-trout fishing in and above the loch is very 

 good. Salmon do not often take in the loch; but they 

 rise rather freely in the sluggish water above. Below 

 the loch they take well when the river is in order. 

 It rises and falls very quickly. Salmon run about 



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