1SS SALMON FISHING 



1903 ... 90 salmon ; 2263 sea-trout. 



1904 . . . 77 salmon; 2818 sea-trout. 



1905 . . . 51 salmon; 3215 sea-trout. 



" Some of the waters are so far from the shooting 

 lodges that they have hardly been fished on at all ; 

 but the others are yielding better sport every year. 

 This is due to stricter supervision and various im- 

 provements in some of the rivers. Apart from these 

 the bags depend entirely on the amount of water. 

 Although the salmon are on the average small when 

 compared with the fish caught in the large rivers of 

 the mainland, those fishermen who have enjoyed the 

 play of a heavy sea-trout on a light rod would bear 

 witness to the fine sport obtainable in these waters 

 of the outer island."" 



Some of the waters mentioned by Lord Fincastle 

 are fished by members of the Hebridean Sporting 

 Association, a club formed in Glasgow not very long 

 ago. Mr. George D. Stirling, the Secretary, sends a 

 pleasant note. 



The waters leased by his Association are the 

 Obbe Lochs, attached to Rodel House, and the 

 Finsbay Lochs, attached to Finsbay Lodge. " The 

 fishing is partly in tidal waters, and partly in 

 fresh -water lochs. There are no rivers, the fish 

 obtaining access to the lochs by short streams 

 or runs, in which they do not rest before reaching 

 the lochs. There is no pollution, and disease is 

 unknown. The Association leased the fishings in 

 1903, and their experience thereof is limited to 



