52 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



Lord George Cavendish ordered the river that 

 runs through his park, at Latimer, in Bucks, to 

 be drawn off in 1776, and drew from it five hun- 

 dred brace of trout, weighing, on an average, one 

 pound each. 



Trout Fishing in Scotland. Last week the 

 game-keeper at Haughton killed, with a rod and 

 line, in the Don, a common river trout, which 

 weighed eleven pounds, and measured in girth 

 seventeen inches, the largest trout probably ever 

 caught in the river. 



Aberdeen Journal, Sept. 1833. 



There is a fine trout stream, river Ythonj near 

 Elian, where a small inn is kept by Mrs. Cowie, 

 whose son is an excellent fisher, who will give 

 every information ; the writer appears to have had 

 most delightful sport, one trout twenty-one inches 

 long ; this village is only sixteen miles from Aber- 

 deen ; the water belongs to Lord Aberdeen, but 

 his agent, Mr. Blachie, is very obliging in readily 

 granting permission to those who apply to him. 



Fly - Fishing Ballater. This delightful 

 place, on the banks of the Don, is the favou- 

 rite resort of the Aberdonians ; it is about forty 

 miles from Aberdeen, near which Byron spent 

 some of his youthful days. During the months 

 of June, July, and August, it is the resort of the 



