180 LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



Next starting for Glen Tromie, I arrived there on 

 the 16th, to stay till 6th of October ; Frank and 

 Bob Hargreaves, Frank Gist, Charles Greenfield, Shaw- 

 Kennedy, were also of the party. During this visit 

 there were some very pleasant days of joint grouse 

 driving with the late Mr. Heywood Lonsdale, the 

 master of the Shropshire, who rented Invereshie. Our 

 kill for the time I was there was 14 stags, 394 grouse, 

 with the usual variety of other game. During the 

 first three days of October it rained nearly incessantly, 

 the Tromie becoming so flooded as to resemble a big 

 roaring river, as may be imagined when in one day, 

 in less than five hours, it rose over eight feet. My 

 host and I being at Glen Tromie during these wet days, 

 we had a try for some of the very large trout which 

 quit Loch Insh to spawn in this tributary of the Spey. 

 Attacking them for a few hours at a time on the 

 1st and 2nd of October, we took altogether eleven 

 brown trout, weighing 44 lbs., the two heaviest being 

 6 1 and 6 J lbs. Of these whoppers there is a large 

 supply in Loch Insh, but from early spring to the 



