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gnat, will be equally successful in the latter. Even in 

 bright sunny weather, when not a breath of air is astir, 

 and when it would be next to impossible to raise a fish 

 in most other waters, a decent dish of trout may be 

 taken out of the Glen ; thus showing the readiness 

 with which the fly is taken in this water, when skil- 

 fully fished. During the height of summer, when the 

 .waters are low, great execution may be done by fishing 

 up stream with a worm in the early morning ; and 

 again in the evening, by spinning a minnow in the 

 rapids at the head of the streams. I have seen a 

 magnificent dish of trout taken in this manner (one 

 weighing two pounds and a half) when they were else- 

 where a rare commodity. The salmon himself is occa- 

 sionally killed with the rod in the Coupland Water, as 

 also abundance of whitling ; but it must be remembered 

 that those aristocrats of the finny community are not to 

 be had every day here. 



The Glen trout are fair-sized, pretty, bright-coloured 

 fish, but by no means equal to those of the Till, either 

 for size or flavour. 



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Though the College has in dry weather only the 

 proportions of a mountain burn, nevertheless it abounds 

 with trout, which take either the worm or the fly very 

 freely, if the water is in a proper state after rain. They 

 generally run small six or seven to the pound yet a 

 few good fish of half or three quarters of a pound fre- 

 quently present themselves, and I have seen one of two 



