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the loch, and flows gently with great bends through an alluvial flat 

 edged with raised beaches. Close to Kinlochewe Hotel it receives 

 two streams, one from the north, the Bruachaig, a useful spawning 

 stream, the other from the south, the Ghairbhe, which drains Loch 

 Clair and Loch Coulin, and as the Coulin river rises from the 

 high ridges 900 to 1200 feet up overlooking Glen Carron a short 

 distance above Achnashellach. This is the channel up which 

 ascending fish chiefly pass and where, in Lochs Clare and Loch 

 Coulin, they congregate in considerable numbers. Near Kinlochewe 

 there is a small hatchery and two rearing ponds where both salmon 

 and sea- trout are dealt with. In 1908 some 60,000 yearling salmon 

 were turned out by Sir Kenneth Mackenzie's direction. 



LOCH CLARE AND LOCH COULIN 



Fish well from June onwards, the fly alone, I understand, being 

 used. I have known of 7 salmon taken in Coulin in a June after- 

 noon. The fisherman was a naval officer, who, like myself, was 

 stopping at Achnashellach Lodge. He kept us waiting till about 

 nine o'clock for dinner, and rode in on a bicycle carrying 4 fish. As 

 he dismounted he remarked that there were three others he could 

 not carry. He said he had fished for salmon twice before. Michie, 

 the old stalker, held up his hands in amazement, and said he had 

 never seen as many as 7 salmon brought from Loch Coulin. 



The lochs are most beautifully situated, and Loch Clare, where 

 Sir Wm. Ogilvie Dalgleish has a lodge, has the reputation of being 

 the most beautiful loch in Koss-shire. It lies, as it were, in the 

 bosom of the hills encircled by belts of grand old Scotch fir, and 

 varied by lovely little islands. It is a typical glacial basin, the 

 islands being composed of the old moraines. The late Lord Elphin- 

 stone caught 140 salmon here one summer, and a good score is 

 generally obtained, not a few of the fish being heavy. Like most 

 really good places, it is a strict preserve, and one does not hear 

 much as to results. 



The land around the two lochs is divided between Sir Kenneth 

 Mackenzie arid Sir Wm. Ogilvie Dalgleish, but the fishing rights 

 belong exclusively to the former, who rents the fishing to his 

 neighbour. 



