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wind was blowing up instead of down the voe, it 

 dammed back all the burn water at the head, 

 and made fishing impossible. Much time was 

 spent in learning these and other tricks or secrets 

 of the place. 



Some of the trout in the sea were brown trout. 

 The largest we caught weighed four pounds and 

 three-quarters, and several were over two pounds. 

 They were perfectly distinct from the sea trout, 

 and had yellow under-sides and some red spots, 

 but their flesh was in colour and flavour that of 

 sea trout. We saw several grilse and small 

 salmon jumping in this voe, and in October they 

 turned quite red without having been in fresh 

 water at all, but we did not succeed in hooking 

 any of them. I suppose that none of the large 

 fish, neither salmon, sea trout, nor brown trout, 

 attempted to enter the little burns till they 

 were quite ready to spawn. They then could 

 have gone only a little way up in a flood, and 

 no doubt returned to the sea immediately after 

 having spawned. 



We were told that there were no true salmon in 

 Shetland, but we certainly caught many fish from 



three pounds to six pounds, which were exactly 



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