SOME BROAD FACTS IN ANGLING LAW 373 



fresh- water lochs which are at once tidal and navigable. 

 The right belongs exclusively to proprietors of lands 

 adjoining the fishing, and neither the custom of 

 fishing for any length of time, nor lawful access to 

 the water by boat, bridge, ford, ferry, right of way, 

 or otherwise, will give to the public a right to fish for 

 trout. 



2. Tenants. Apart from agreement, an agricultural 

 tenant has no right to fish for trout in respect of 

 his lease. On the other hand, the lessee of the 

 salmon fishings, if any, has an implied right to fish for 

 trout. 



3. Private Proprietors. As between proprietors 

 the following broad rules obtain according to Scottish 

 law, and an intelligent keeper, or fish watcher, will keep 

 them in view in order to protect his employer's interests, 

 or at least to escape causing needless friction between 

 neighbours. 



(i) Private Rivers. A private river, as regards 

 trout-fishing, is one in which the proprietors 

 may exclude the public from fishing. That 

 is, all those except such as are at once tidal 

 and navigable, and only in so far as they are 

 so. Where a river intersects one proprietor's 

 lands, he alone has the right to fish in it for 

 trout. Where the river is the boundary of 

 opposite proprietors' lands the law declares 

 (apart from title, which may rule otherwise) 

 that the centre of the stream is the boundary. 



