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guided by the advice tendered me, I should, in all probability, 

 have had a hard struggle to maintain my credit. The successful 

 fly, I may mention, is classed on Tweedside among the March- 

 browns, and stands at the head of its three varieties : wings, 

 speckled partridge-feather or hen- pheasant : shoulders, ginger 

 heckle ; body, light-coloured hare-lug, with a slender gold thread 

 worked over it, and tail-feelers attached. 



My youngest brother, a crack hand with both rod and gun, 

 who had slain salmon and erioces among the heights of the Sacra- 

 mento, river-cod in the Australian water-holes, pigs and monster 

 eels among the tabooed hills of the Canterbury Settlement in 

 New Zealand, as well as mokas and other fish in the estuaries of 

 its rivers, angled in Loch Broom along with me on this occasion, 

 using a similar fly. He preferred, however, beating the water 

 from the margins instead of the boat ; and in point of weight 

 over-topped me by a pound or two, our numbers exactly corre- 

 sponding. The loch had been recently dammed up and extended, 

 both for sporting purposes, and in order to give water-power to a 

 saw-mill near Moulinearn. He had in consequence to contend 

 with the heather which lined its altered margins, and lost many 

 a good trout in his endeavour to land it, owing to the disengaged 

 fly coming into contact with the submerged twigs. 



The trout of Loch Broom cut red and firm, and in point of 

 symmetry and external beauty take the precedence of all the 

 trout in the district. I am reminded of them in these respects 

 by an admirably executed engraving, in water-colours, published 

 by E. Gambart and Co., Berners Street, Oxford Street, entitled 

 ' Not Long Caught.' 



On that stretch of the river Tummel, the best trouting, and I 

 may add salmon-fishing, is to be met with in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Moulinearn. Above Pitlochrie the bed is too 

 rocky, and the run of water too impetuous to supply nourish- 

 ment and eligible shelter to large trout. Although, to the half- 



