CHAPTEK II. 



FOETH DISTRICT. 



RIVERS : FORTH, TEITH, LENY, AND ALLAN. 

 LOCHS : VENNACHER, ACHRAY, LUBNAIG, VOIL, AND DOINE. 



ANGLING SEASON : January 15th to October 15th. 

 NETTING SEASON : February llth to August 26th. 



District Fishery Board sits in Stirling. Patrick Welsh, Esq., Procurator-Fiscal, Stirling, 



acts as Clerk. 



THIS district is peculiar in that it is of very extensive area, has an 

 exceptionally large sea firth, and a comparatively short fresh water 

 area. It extends from Fife Ness, at the mouth of the Firth of 

 Forth, on the north, through part of Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, 

 Perthshire, Stirlingshire, and the three Lothian counties, to the 

 boundary between Haddington and Berwickshire on the south, where 

 it " marches " with the Tweed District. The shores of the Firth of 

 Forth are for the most part sandy, the eastern portion of Fife and 

 the coast of Haddington being steep and rocky. On the sandy 

 shores fly nets and bag nets are fished in considerable numbers, those 

 on the Fife coast being the most productive. On this stretch a 

 marked fish from the Deveron was taken in 1907. It was marked 

 18 months before recapture and had gained 7J Ib. The rocky 

 section is fished by bag nets alone. 



From a salmon fishing point of view the estuary of the Forth is 

 fixed a short distance to the east of the Forth Bridge, by an imagi- 

 nary line drawn from the Hound Point on the south shore to St. 

 David's Point on the north. From the town of Stirling this estuary 

 measures 31 J miles, and has on it such towns as Alloa, Kincardine, 

 Grangemouth, where the Forth and Clyde Canal enters, Bo'ness, and 

 Queensferry, not to mention the prospective town and naval station 

 of Eosyth. The " Links of Forth," in their extraordinary windings 

 between Stirling and Alloa, give the river course a length of 12 J 

 miles in a point to point distance of 5J miles. This long estuary, 



