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Highland managers, Mr. Munroe, whose courtesy is 

 well known. The visitor there can enjoy the triple 

 charms of sport, spa-waters, and music. I may also 

 add that, to those to whom such an item is a con- 

 sideration, the charges are moderate. 



Reels are a very important consideration. I have 

 tried ever so many different kinds, including that 

 invented by Sir Joseph Hawley, and have come to the 

 conclusion that by far the best pattern is Malloch's 

 ' sun and planet ' reel for trout and salmon, and also the 

 spinning or trolling reel by the same inventor, from 

 which latter as many as seventy yards of line can be 

 cast straight from the reel, without the necessity of 

 having to draw out any line with the hand. It is one 

 of the very best and most useful of angling inventions, 

 and a great comfort to the fisherman. Mr. Malloch is 

 not only a practical man, but he is the best fisher- 

 man in Perthshire, and is well known as a frequent 

 prize-winner. Though I have used his inventions 

 for so long, I have, I regret to say, never met 

 him, 



I advise no fisherman to have less than 150 yards of 

 line on his salmon-reel, or less than 100 yards for 

 trout-fishing, inasmuch as, when trolling for trout in 

 lakes, it occasionally happens that there may be as 

 much as 60 yards of line out at a time. 



There is a very killing way of fishing for trout by 

 trolling with a fiy of which I am cognisant. If any of 

 my readers desire to know more about it, I shall be 

 very pleased to inform them ; but although such a 

 system is perfectly legal, I do not think I should be 

 justified in making it too generally known, inasmuch as 

 the abuse of it might cause harm, spoil the sport of ■ 



