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a-crown an hour, including a man to manage the 

 boat, and, considering that the trout sell at 

 eighteenpence a pound, that two can fish from a 

 boat, and that anglers are allowed to keep their 

 fish, we think the charge moderate. Any of the 

 flies we have recommended for loch-fishing will suit 

 Loch Leven ; we have also had very good sport by 

 trolling with Brown's artificial minnow. 



The artificial fly is by far the most agreeable and 

 sportsmanlike method of capturing trout in lochs, 

 but is liable to this objection, that the large trout 

 are very rarely taken by it. And though the reader 

 may hear of five, six, and even eight pound trout 

 being taken by this means, he may rest assured 

 that, however well he may fish, he will catch but 

 few such. 



The large trout in lochs seem to live principally 

 on their smaller neighbours, and can be more 

 readily taken by trolling than by any other means. 

 It is not at all uncommon to find the trout cap- 

 tured with fly rarely exceeding half-a-pound in 

 weight; while trout of five, ten, and sometimes 

 even twenty pounds' weight, may be taken by means 

 of a small fish for a bait. If the trout are not large, 

 a minnow or parr-tail will form the best bait ; but 

 if the angler expects to meet with trout exceeding 

 two or three pounds in weight, a whole parr should 

 be used, and it is superior to a trout, being much 

 more silvery and easily seen. If parr are not pro- 

 curable, recourse must be had to trout, and if, as 



