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no harm in letting your men fish when you are 

 taking your lunch, ~but don't allow a third rod 

 to be put lip. The boatmen are, as a rule, only 

 fifth -rate fishers, though, of course, a few of 

 them handle a rod well. Our recollections of 

 Loch Leven are pleasant in some ways, in 

 others they are not ; but don't fail to give it a 

 trial, if only for the pleasure of handling a big 

 fish on fine gut. The manager of the Loch 

 Leven fishings, Captain Hall, fills a very diffi- 

 cult post with much acceptance to all con- 

 cerned. 



But to leave the Lowlands and go into the 

 far North, we take you to LOCH ASSYNT, in 

 Sutheriandshire, and to a little loch near it, 

 LOCH AWE by name. The journey to Assynt 

 is long and weary : train to Lairg, and then 

 between thirty and forty miles driving, is a 

 good long scamper for fishing, but it is worth 

 it. The inn at Inchnadamph is good, but when 

 we were there in 1877 the boat accommodation 

 was poor enough : perhaps they have improved 

 upon that since. The first day after our arrival 

 we had to go to Loch Awe, as the boats on the 

 large loch (Assynt) were taken up. Such a 

 morning of rain and wind ! We were wet 



