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angling from the side, betwixt three or four dozen in 

 the course of a forenoon with a red professor of the 

 ordinary size. 



The streams running into Conan below Loch 

 Luichart are, besides the Rasay or Black-water, the 

 Meig from Strath- Conan, and, lower down, the 

 Orrin. I am not acquainted with any prime salmon 

 pools on the Meig, except those in the neighbour- 

 hood of Scatwell, and immediately below a rocky 

 and dangerous pass, over which the fish only occa- 

 sionally find a transit. The trout in this stream are 

 generally insignificant, as also are those found in 

 Orrin, although we believe well-sized ones are now 

 and then to be captured in the upper parts of both 

 waters. 



Immediately above Loch Luichart, the Gradie 

 river falls into Conan, issuing from Loch Fannich, 

 a considerable extent of water. Loch Fannich con- 

 tains numbers of small trout, and possibly a few of 

 great size. It is, however, scarcely worthy of the 

 angler's attention, being situated in a wild, pastoral, 

 unaccommodating district, and not readily approach- 

 ed even by the pedestrian. The Strath-Bran lakes, 

 although frequently angled on, and some of them 

 stored with pike, are infinitely superior. 



Besides these, a small tarn, lying upon the hill- 

 path betwixt Scatwell and Achnanault, is by no 

 means to be overlooked. There are twain together, 

 but I allude to the more northernly; for although 

 angling in both, I failed to discover fish in the other. 



