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several lochs stocked with Loch Leven trout, averaging 

 about 1 pound each. During 1906 the two best baskets 

 of trout were eight trout weighing 20 pounds and six 

 trout weighing 18 pounds taken with fly. 



The scenery is magnificent, there is excellent sea 

 bathing, and the hotel is situated close to Handa Island, 

 which is noted for the richness of its bird life. 



To those who like a comfortable hotel and lake 

 fishing the Hotel Lake-Vyrnwy can be safely recom- 

 mended ; the fishing is good and the hotel overlooks 

 the water. 



The North, West, and South of Wales are full 

 of good localities. In the North of Scotland and 

 the West and North of Ireland free fishing can be 

 obtained, and good fishing easily acquired at a small 

 cost. Norway, Germany (especially in Baden), France, 

 Spain, the Austrian Tyrol, Sweden, etc., will all repay 

 a visit ; in many places exceptionally good fishing will 

 be found. If I have any favourites abroad, they are 

 the chalk streams of Normandy, or those of the Black 

 Forest. 



But I must, after all, give my adherence to the 

 British Isles. For many years to come most excellent 

 and cheap trout fishing will be obtainable in this 

 dear old motherland by those who know where to go, 

 and while they will find it will cost them less than going 

 abroad, they will be spending their money among their 

 own people, the trout will be as game, as beautiful and 

 as plentiful as in any other country, and the scenery 

 and accommodation will be in most cases better. 



