276 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



The maximum depth is 270 feet and, as the surface of the loch is 

 about 215 feet above the sea, it follows that the floors of the three 

 250 feet basins are below the level of the sea at Loch Inver. Some 

 29 per cent, of the loch, however, has a depth of less than 50 feet 

 near the shores. The shallows are more noticeable on the north 

 than on the south shore, the various bays between the rather 

 marked little peninsulas varying from 10 to 30 feet, but no shallow 

 bank of any kind exists away from the immediate shore line. 



Inchnadamph Hotel has the right of fishing in Loch Assynt 

 as well as in the upper section of the river Inver before 1st 

 August, or other date which may from time to time be arranged 

 by the estate. 



The hotel also has a boat on little Loch Awe which, in addition 

 to the chance of a salmon, yields good red-fleshed trout. The tenant 

 of Loch Assynt Lodge also fishes Loch Assynt and has the exclusive 

 right on the upper section of the Inver after the specified date. 



Mr. Wallace of Inchnadamph Hotel kindly supplies me with the 

 numbers of salmon and grilse caught by his visitors in Loch Assynt, 

 including a few fish from the river Loanan and Loch Awe. 



1900 - - 23 



1901 - - 23 



1902 - - 64 



1903 - - 18 



1904 - - 61 



1905 - - 21 



1906 - - 22 



1907 - - 21 



1908 - - 25 



This is practically an average of 31 fish. 



EIVEE KIKKAIG. 



This is a nice river, but a short one. Only 2J miles of it are 

 available for salmon fishing owing to a perpendicular fall about 50 

 feet high. There is about half a mile of river above, flowing out of 

 the Fionn Loch and a nice little bit of water, too and then the 

 stream drops over its precipice. This fall is a very fine spectacle, 

 but it is likely for all time (unless, say, another glacial period should 

 come upon us) to remain quite impassable to salmon. The Kirkaig 

 is the southern boundary of the county of Sutherland. 



The catchment basin is rather less than that of the Inver, but 

 rather greater than that of the Laxford. In the area closed to 

 salmon there are many fine trouting lochs, such as Fionn, Veyatie, 

 Cam Loch, Urigill, and Borrolan, by the side of which the fishing 

 hotel of Aultnacallagach stands. The western portion of this area 

 as well as the whole coast belt up to Ehu Stoer, is a rough and end- 

 less succession of rounded and worn bosses of rock formed of the 



