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except that I submit to the notice of the great 

 salmon fishers of Shin those model flies in my 

 list for trial, which, no doubt, will kill. I 

 never fished the Shin, although I have been 

 twice near it. Mr. Young, of Invershin, the 

 renter of the river, will show gentlemen 

 angling there every possible facility, civility, 

 and politeness. The " Queen's Gap," in the 

 cruives, is lifted on sabbath days. 



THE RIVEK THUESO. 



The Thurso, famed for its fresh run salmon 

 throughout the year, is the most northern 

 river in Scotland. The town of Thurso, in 

 Caithness- shire, is the best station, and the 

 route, from Aberdeen to Wick. 



The salmon flies for Thurso are rather of a 

 plain and sombre cast, varying in size through 

 the fishing months. The river is remarkably 

 high and full in the spring, in consequence of 

 the melting of the snow and ice, and at that 

 period requires large flies, like No. 12; further 

 on in the season they are much smaller in size, 

 like Nos. 1, 2, 3, to No. 11, which are capital 

 ones for it, and the other engravings are like- 



