INTRODUCTION 25 



" Seeing," he writes, " that we have cold 

 north winds now far into May, and that 

 it is often only in small sheltered nooks 

 and corners that any fly is seen to hatch 

 off at all, the chances are again decreased. 

 Often, when one angler confines his at- 

 tention to some small sheltered reach and 

 fishes it over and over again all day, 

 killing a fair basket, another angler, only 

 a few hundred yards away, neither gets a 

 fish nor sees a single natural insect on the 

 water." 



The early part of 1905, particularly The spring 

 on the west side of Scotland, was too 

 subject to spates to be in general favour 

 with salmon-fishermen. One result was 

 that salmon went right through short 

 coast rivers, like the Awe, and found 

 their way to higher waters, like (in this 

 instance) those of the Orchy, without 

 giving the rods below a chance of sport. 



Nor is Mr. Harvie-Brown alone in his Mr. Munro 



T . n ! .1 Edwards on 



condemnation 01 the spring weather in the same 

 recent seasons. Mr. Munro Edwards, sub J ect - 

 writing with special reference to Lake 



