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grilse fly, or by trolling with a small fish. The fly, 

 I believe, is preferable, there being numbers of pike 

 to snap at a spinning bait. 



At no great distance from Ledgowan, and in the 

 neighbourhood of Auchnasheen, lies Loch Roshk, 

 a considerable sheet of water, affording very superior 

 angling. Its trout, like those in the places already 

 mentioned, attain to a large size, and may be cap- 

 tured by a good angler in considerable numbers. 



I am not personally acquainted with many other 

 lochs worthy of recommendation in the eastern dis- 

 tricts of Ross-shire. There are, it is true, Lochs 

 Garve or Malaing, through which the Black-water 

 runs, Ussie and Kinellan, near Strathpeffer, all of 

 which contain quantities of pike; and as to Loch 

 Garve, and a smaller sheet of water in its vicinity, 

 they boast of some good trout, but these are scarce- 

 ly worth wasting our patience upon, being so dull 

 and capricious. The inky nature of the water which 

 they inhabit seems indeed to injure their appetite 

 for the fly. Perhaps there is no stream in Scotland 

 so dark in its colour, during summer, as the Black- 

 river. Such, in fact, is its quality in this respect, 

 that salmon ascending it have been known to be- 

 come perfectly foul-hued in the course of forty hours. 



Such is the substance of a communication made to the 

 club by one of its members, regarding some of the 

 waters in Easter Ross-shire. No mention, we perceive, 

 is made of Loch Moir, lying at the extremity of Wy vis, 



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