SPRING FISHING IN LOCH ARD. 239 
can be had at Edinburgh or Glasgow for Stirling, and 
thence for Bucklyvie or any other station on the Forth 
and Clyde line. Mr. Mitchell, the hotel-keeper at 
Aberfoyle, can have a conveyance waiting any train, 
if notified by a letter posted at Edinburgh before 
3.30 the day previous, or in London in time for the , 
evening mails two days before. 
The liberty of fishing in Loch Ard is to be had 
by moderate payment, and under fair arrangements. 
The fishing of the loch is rented by Mr. Dick, formerly 
of Glasgow, who has had a house and shootings in 
the district for more than thirty years, and was the 
first man that ever paid sporting-rent to the dukes 
of Montrose; and Mr. Dick, instead of restricting 
angling leave to his friends or to importunate visitors, 
very properly and liberally throws the loch open to 
the public at a charge merely covering expenses. He 
_ keeps seven or eight smart boats, for the use of one of 
which, leave to angle, and the services of a boatman, 
the charge is 6s. a-day. Mr. Dick’s boats are under 
charge of a family named Cleland, very intelligent and 
obliging young men, on whose advice the stranger 
angler will do well to rest and be thankful. At times 
—especially when the Glasgow and Stirling Angling 
Clubs have their annual competitions—boats are apt 
to be scarce ; and it is prudent to try to engage a boat 
by writing, beforehand, with time for an answer, to 
Mr. D. Cleland, Loch Ard, Aberfoyle, by Stirling. 
