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around this lake belongs to two different proprietors ; 

 one allows fishing, the other not, so that, with a boat, 

 any part of the lake may be angled in. Loch Scama- 

 dale also communicates with the sea, by the water of 

 Euchar, a rocky impetuous stream. It is about the 

 size of Loch Nell, but contains more salmon, and 

 plenty of sea-trout. Yellow trout have been caught 

 five or six pounds weight, but average much less. 

 The fishings are let ; rod-fishers, however, meet with 

 no interruption. 



" In the black lakes three miles from Oban, sea-trout 

 abound, and I have frequently killed four or five dozen 

 in a day, averaging three-quarters of a pound. They 

 contain no salmon, but swarm with small trout. A 

 boat is necessary. On the island of Lismore, opposite 

 Oban, there is a good fishing lake called Killy-heeran. 

 Its trout are like those of Loch Leven, fat and red. 

 It has no communication with the sea." 



At the foot of the Euchar and the Oude are salmon- 

 fishings the former pays about forty pounds of rent, 

 the latter thirty pounds. 



In the neighbourhood of Kilmun, is the Eachaig, 

 issuing from Loch Eck, and emptying itself, after a 

 course of four miles, into the Holy Loch. This river, 

 from the facility with which it is approached, is much 

 fished. The grilses and sea- trout that ascend it are 

 pretty numerous. Small gaudy flies, like those used 

 on the west coast of Ireland, seem the favourites. 

 Loch Eck is about seven miles in length, and among 

 other fishes, contains the gwyniad or salmo lavaretus, 

 termed there the powan or fresh-water herring. It 

 also possesses a fish, said to be peculiar to itself, and 

 supposed to have been planted by the monks of old, 

 who held considerable possessions in that district. 



