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two and a half miles from the falls to the sea, and 

 the falls are too high for any salmon to get 

 over. It affords capital fishing in April and May, 

 and again in August and September, and you rarely 

 get a red fish, all fresh run. Its neighbour, the 

 Elchaig, has a course of some six or seven miles, 

 from a loch ; capital fishing in the spring, but in the 

 autumn you get plenty of red fish as well as fresh 

 run. This river is first-rate for sea trout. Strangers 

 fishing these and other rivers must, as I have pre- 

 viously said, depend very much on the keeper, who 

 knows the localities of the fish, but it is sometimes 

 as well to observe for yourself. Here is an instance : 

 There is a lovely pool on the Luing (which when 

 in ply contains a lot of fish), called the Ladies' 

 Pool, and which is fished from a rock on the left 

 bank, and you have to throw a long line to the other 

 side. When she is big it is a long cast, and there is 

 a nasty bank behind you. But why not fish it from 

 the other side ? " Oh, it is never done. The fly 

 won't come over the fish properly from the other 

 side ; " but on looking at the run of the stream I 

 thought differently, so I made a long detour, and 

 got to the other side. At my first cast a short one, 

 just to see how the fly worked I rose a good fish, 

 and I rose five in rapid succession, hooked and 

 landed two of them, and lost another by my atten- 

 dant letting him drop in the river after he had 



