of water in the boat. The catch was 

 never weighed or counted, but all the 

 gillies declared that they had never 

 seen a take like it made with the rod. 

 Certainly, it exceeded anything else I 

 have done before or since. Another re- 

 markable fact was the unusual size of the 

 fish, which ran two to the pound, with 

 several of as much as two pounds, and 

 this in a lake where trout of the ' herring ' 

 A case on size are the rule. A friend of mine had a 



Loch Leven. -i -TIT i_ j_ 



similar experience m Loch Leven, but in 

 this case, the fish being large and the 

 tackle fine, he lost many in his eagerness 

 to profit by the rise. I attribute this 

 extraordinary activity of the fish entirely 

 to oxygenation of the water." 



Ram on the A somewhat similar experience once 

 Berwickshire fefeft Mr Noble on the Berwickshire 



Blackadder. 



Blackadder. These are his words : 



" Some few years ago, I was fishing with 

 a companion in the Berwickshire Black- 

 adder. We started that morning in clear 

 sunshine. Then, about noon, a soft, 

 drizzling, warm rain began to fall and 



