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few yellow trout are met with below the cruive-dyke : 

 but finnocks, and at certain seasons sea-trout, are plen- 

 tiful. The finest salmon-pools for rod-fishing, above 

 Rothes, are situated in the neighbourhood of Aberlour. 



FINDHORN has its rise in the Monad-lead group of 

 hills, in Inverness-shire, and discharges itself, after a 

 course of sixty miles, not including its sinuosities, into 

 the Moray Firth. It is a rapid, impetuous stream, 

 subject to sudden and dangerous risings, which make, 

 at certain seasons, its banks and channel unsafe ground 

 for the angler to venture on. In many places, the bed 

 of the river lies confined betwixt walls of rock, to 

 ascend which is utterly impracticable ; and should, as 

 frequently happens, great rains occur near the sources, 

 while none take place lower down, a body of water 

 several feet in height, with a front resembling that of a 

 huge wave, invariably, without warning, usurps the 

 course of the dwindled stream, carrying everything 

 before it, and silencing at its first dread burst the 

 shriek of horror uttered by the surprised wader. The 

 Gaelic names given to numbers of the pools and fords 

 commemorate many such catastrophes, and speak to 

 the heart, if not to the recollection of the local inha- 

 bitant, more forcibly than any other description of 

 warning. 



The yellow trout found in Findhorn are not in ge- 

 neral of large size, but they are abundant and take the 

 fly freely. The principal tributaries of this river are the 

 Moy-water from Loch Moy, and Bruach from Loch 

 Bruach. Loch Moy, which is a mile and a half in 

 length, is famed for its charr, which, however, do not 

 take the fly freely, but are captured principally by 

 means of the net. Loch Bruach contains fine trout. 

 Above Dulsie-bridge, Findhorn is joined by the Pallan- 



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