28 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



is reversed, and the fish is thus enabled to pass alternately from 

 shallow to deep, and vice versa. At the head of the ladder a sluice 

 regulates the water flow, admitting only what is required for the 

 passage of the fish. Salmon, grilse, and sea trout ascended in fair 

 numbers, and the waters above the fall soon became stocked and 

 j'ielded sport to the rod. 



The Cambusmore shooting on the south bank of the Fleet 

 has the lower fishing of the river. Earl Amherst, at Morvich, 

 on the north bank, and Mr. H. H. Bolton, at Rovie, have the 

 remainder. The angler on the lower reaches of the Fleet is daily 

 looked down on by the monument on Golspie Hill, erected to the 

 memory of one of the late Dukes of Sutherland, the same duke who, 

 at his o\\'n expense, emigrated so many of his crofters, greatly to 

 their benefit ; the tradition relates that after the putting up of the 

 monument some wag scribbled on its base the following lines : — 



" There was once a great Duke of Sutherland, 

 Whose crofters were fond of their motherland ; 

 But to each one he said, Your passage is paid, 

 And oft you must go to some other land." 



I vouch not for the truth of this story, but at any rate the lines 

 are rather funny. 



In 1909 there were a remarkable number of fish caught in this 

 little stream — no less than 172 salmon and gi'ilse and over 200 

 sea trout — the heaviest, of 20-?t lb., was caught in Rovie Pool. 



