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and careful handling to fish at night. I cannot 

 do it. 



Further down the river, at the Parritch Haugh, 

 there is another bank of gravel and sand, where 

 the water leaves the pool. Here it is better to 

 wade, as you can reach the lie of the trout 

 better without being seen. The banks being 

 high, the fish can see you a long way off, and 

 some caution is required in approaching the 

 pool. At this spot I have, again and again, 

 landed fish of a pound weight, and at the end 

 of the season the place is a very good lie for 

 sea-trout. A little further on in the stream that 

 runs into Linn o' Bain good fishing may be 

 found, but the trout in it are most capricious, 

 and on a likely day it may be drawn blank. 

 Sometimes the persevering angler may be re- 

 warded with a good catch, fish up to and over 

 one pound being sometimes got; at other times 

 not a fish can be moved. Linn o' Bain is more 

 a salmon than a trout pool, being haunted by 

 Pike and Perch ; but at the tail of the pool 



