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a string. Although Duddingstone Loch could 

 have been fished in the same way, we seldom 

 went to it ; when we did so, we were not success- 

 ful, although both pike and perch were often 

 taken in it. There is still fishing in both places : 

 but in walking over the sides of Locheiid the 

 other day, I found it much altered. One or two 

 of the large stones on which we stood sometimes, 

 and threw the perches out over our heads, like 

 podlies at the end of Leith Pier, still remain. 



NEAR EDINBURGH, RIVER LEITH. 



To this pleasant little village I often went on 

 the Saturday afternoons, and sometimes after 

 eight o'clock in the summer evenings, to fish with 

 fly in the Water of Leith, killing trout above 

 and below the bridge. I remember catching a 

 large eel with my fly, a rather rare occurrence ; 

 and, wasting all my cast line in the dark, had to 

 give it up, not having been possessed of a second. 

 Many a good trout have I seen taken with a 

 very small fly, thrown from the corner above the 



