ANGLING REMINISCENCES. Ill 



Conan, to Loch Cullen. The trout in this sheet of 

 water are some of them of great size ; many, how- 

 ever, are under twelve inches in length, but there 

 are few very small ones. I killed one there weigh- 

 ing three pounds, on the same day that I caught the 

 large one mentioned above, besides several others. 

 But I did not handle the rod with much enthusiasm 

 or for any length of time, as it was then getting 

 late and no breeze on the water; besides, I was 

 over-content with what I had already taken. The 

 Cullen trout, judging from the specimens captured 

 by myself, wants both beauty of form as well as 

 fleshy fairness. My largest fish, although not half 

 the heaviness, was almost of the same length as the 

 one previously alluded to from the hill-loch, and its 

 head fully three times the size. The smaller ones, 

 from a pound weight and downwards, were better pro- 

 portioned, but by no means beautiful in appearance* 

 Achnanault Loch lies immediately above Cullen, 

 and is somewhat of the same description, although I 

 have heard it asserted that the trout therein are of 

 larger size and less plentiful in number, pike being 

 very abundant. The cursory trial I took of it 

 shewed in a manner the reverse; for of the two fish 

 I captured there in the course of ten minutes, both 

 were smaller than any I caught in the other loch. 

 This, however, arose possibly from accident; in- 

 deed, I have generally remarked, when two lakes 

 are near each other and joined by a run of water, 

 that the uppermost contains the larger fish. 



