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are no restrictions in force against bond fide rod- 

 fishing. 



The falls of Tummel are situated three or four miles 

 below the loch, and not far from the junction of that 

 river with the Garry. Their height is eighteen feet, 

 but salmon, as I have said, are known to surmount 

 them, and have been caught, as well as numerous smolts, 

 farther up. The trout of the river are not remarkable 

 either in point of abundance or quality. Large indi- 

 viduals have occasionally been caught by means of the 

 minnow and parr-tail, but the appearance of these over- 

 grown specimens is far from inviting. 



At Faskally, this river is joined by the GARRY, or 

 water of the Den, which issuing from Loch Garry, near 

 Dalna-spidal, maintains a course of above thirty miles, 

 and is increased, successively, by the Erochkie, Bruar, 

 and Tilt, along with numerous lesser streams. The 

 lower parts of Garry, at the pass of Killiecrankie, are 

 visited, during June and July, by grilses and sea-trout, 

 which, in some places, take the fly freely. Good fresh- 

 water trout are met with in the loch, from which it 

 derives its name. Those, however, native to the stream, 

 as well as the trout of Glen Tilt and Bruar, are small- 

 sized, seldom attaining half-a-pound in weight. The 

 rent of the salmon-fishings in Tummel and Garry does 

 not much exceed twenty pounds. On their junction, 

 these rivers proceed amicably together, passing the 

 village of Pitlochrie and inn at Moulinearn, to Logie- 

 rait, and there become absorbed in the waters of the 

 main river the Tay. From the heights to the left, 

 during this portion of their course, they receive its 

 slender tribute from a small lake famed among anglers 

 for the quality of its trout. I allude to Loch Broom, 

 or the Loch of Showers. 



