268 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



The most important netting station on this coast is Clachtoll, 

 where in an ordinary year from three to six hundred salmon, and 

 two to three thousand grilse may be taken. Claehtoll is in the 

 Inver district, about half-way between the mouth of the river and 

 Ehu Stoer on the north. 



The particular features which determine a good or a bad bag-net 

 station are not much understood even by experienced tacksmen, 

 except that a shore with a southern exposure usually fishes better 

 than one looking to the north, and that some places will not fish 

 well simply because tides and currents will not allow of the nets 

 standing properly. Apart from such general considerations, good 

 and bad places are simply found out by experience on this west 

 coast with its numberless lochs and creeks and islands, and since 

 grilse are chiefly expected, the full complement of nets are not put 

 in the water till the beginning of June. At the same time, in the 

 particular district referred to here, some restriction is placed upon 

 the number and positions of the nets. 



I may now describe the four rivers separately. 



EIVEE INCHAED. 



The main line of this river is north-west for barely five miles, 

 through two narrow little lochs called Garbh Bhaid Mhor, corrupted 

 into Garbet Mor, and Garbet Beg. The latter, i.e. the smaller loch, 

 is the nearest to the mouth of the stony, boulder-strewn, little river 

 which flows into the head of Loch Inchard at Ehiconich. The 

 stream, from the mouth to Garbet Beg is barely a mile and a half 

 in length. 



It is rather astonishing to read in a work much consulted by 

 anglers that the loch specially described in its name as small and 

 rough is three miles long, while the loch of the great rough clump 

 is two miles long. As a matter of fact, the great loch is a mile 

 and a quarter, and the small loch three-quarters of a mile. Similarly 

 each loch is said to be a mile broad, whereas each is a narrow slip, 

 the maximum width of Garbet Mor being about a seventh of a mile. 

 The stream between the two lochs is insignificant, and the hill burn 

 above Garbet Mor, which rises on the lower slopes of Ben Arkle, is 

 obstructed by falls. 



To the north-east a perfect labyrinth of lochans occupy the low 

 slopes, about the 500 feet contour of Foinne Bheinn, a steep hill 

 rising abruptly on this side to 2980 feet. These eventually drain 

 into Garbet Beg by the Garbh stream. It is a matter of some 



