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weighing as many pounds, were killed one is 

 puzzled to know how it is kept up. The loch 

 itself is a great natural feeding-pond, miles and 

 miles of it being of an almost uniform depth, 

 and a boat may drift almost anywhere, the 

 angler feeling at the same time certain that 

 fish are in his immediate vicinity. Trout of 

 two and three pounds are quite common ; and 

 it is a rare occasion that a day's average does 

 not come up to the pound for each fish. They 

 are very fine eating, and cut red as a grilse. 

 The company which rents the loch pay 800 

 to 1000 for the fishing, and they in turn keep 

 a fleet of large boats twenty we think and 

 let them out to anglers at the rate of 2s. 6d. 

 an hour. Any number may fish from one boat. 

 There are two boatmen in each boat, one of 

 whom is paid by the company, the other by 

 the angler ; and we are sorry to say that these 

 men, with a few exceptions, are very much 

 spoiled. There is a class of anglers (?) who 

 frequent Loch Leven, whose whole aim seems 

 to be, not sport so far as their own personal 

 efforts are concerned, but the killing of as many 

 fish as possible. If such a one has engaged a 

 boat, he arms each boatman with a rod, and, of 



