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time, it was customary to commence netting about the middle of 

 March, and to work up to the Inverawe summer-house. The 

 bottom was kept very smooth, and several nets were used so 

 completely that, except in floods, it was believed no fish were 

 allowed to ascend save in the weekly close time. Fortunately, the 

 netting could never be taken so far up the river as to make the 

 weekly close time inoperative, and a fair stock of fish always 

 persisted in the district. 



This netting in the river was first reduced in 1906 by one net 

 only being worked for twelve hours out of the twenty-four, viz. from 

 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., and at the same time a weekly close time of 40 

 hours being arranged for from 6 p.m. on Saturday to 10 a.m. on 

 Monday. A further modification took place at the commencement 

 of season 1908. Two gentlemen, Major Macdonald and Mr. 

 Plevins, associated themselves in an endeavour to materially improve 

 the Awe angling. They, with Lord Breadalbane, rented the nets, 

 and entirely removed them from the river, and they also removed a 

 net in Loch Etive. They also took a lease of the water on the 

 left bank, which used to be fished from Taynuilt Hotel, including the 

 water at the mouth, and sublet seven rods (from 1909 the number 

 is, I understand, to be six). They are prepared to pay a large 

 proportion of the expenses incurred in these operations. 



In the upper part of Loch Etive Lord Breadalbane and Mr. Ian 

 Nelson, of Glen Etive, took off other nets, and now only two stations 

 are fished in this sea-loch, one belonging to Inverawe and the other 

 to Ardchattan. Both are a short distance up the loch from the 

 mouth of the Awe, and both are now worked by several boats. 



In the rod-fishing acquired by the Eiver Awe Association 

 referred to, no lure save the fly is allowed, and fishing for the 

 season ceases on 15th October, i.e. a fortnight earlier than the 

 statutory time. The following are the rules to be observed, and the 

 scale of charges : 



1. It must be distinctly understood that one rod only is permitted to fish 



any section at one time. No objection will be made to an angler giving 

 a friend or his ghillie a cast. 



2. Anglers are requested not to fish before 9 a.m., except in bright weather 



when the river is low. Anglers are recommended then to leave the 

 water quiet during the day and fish at sun-down. This will be to 

 their own benefit. 



3. Anglers fishing for sea-trout must not be on the water after midnight. 



4. A record of all fish killed will be kept. 



