THE HELMSDALE, OR KILDONAN 39 



Upper Beat No. 2 



(From lower end of Suisgill Parapet to the Island above the surface- 

 man's house at Old Suisgill) 



Consists of five little pools opposite Suisgill House ; several 

 streams up to Suisgill Burn ; opposite Old Suisgill Lodge ; Old 

 Suisgill Pool ; small pools up to Island. Mr. Radcliffe had twelve 

 fish one day off this beat. 



Upper Beat No. 3 



Flats Pool, Dalvuie Pool, Borrobol Bridge Pool, Red Brae Pool, 

 Dalcham Pool, Lower Chancellor Pool, the Den Pool, Upper 

 Chancellor Pool, Gravelly Stream Pool, Kinbrace Park Pool, Kin- 

 brace Bridge Pool. A very good April beat, from which, in 1896, a 

 gentleman staying at Ross' Hotel, in Helmsdale, got eighty-one fish 

 in ten days. 



Upper Beat No. 4 



[From Kinbrace Bridge to junction of Badenloch and Aiichintoul 



Rivers) 



The Washing Pool — nine fish one day by Mr. H. Ackroyd. 

 Black Bank Pool, Burnfort Pool, Black Pool, Junction Pool. 



Upper Beat No. 5 



[From junction of rivers to Loch-na-Moin ; a few small hits up to 



Crockan) 



Crockan Pool, a number of small pools and streams on this beat ; 

 Still Water Pool, twenty-two fish in one day by Mr. Buckley taken 

 with a trout rod ! 



Upper Beat No. 6 



Loch Ach-na-Moin. Seven fish in a day by Mrs. Hick and Mr. 

 Ashworth. 



The Fishery Board Report for 1897 states that the bag-nets 

 river nets of the Brora and Helmsdale took nearly 9500 salmon and 

 grilse, while the six rods of the Helmsdale and the two of the Brora 

 got with the fly under 800, a remarkably disproportionate return, 

 though not so great as in some cases ! 



The rents paid for angling are much heavier than those paid for 

 netting, and having regard to this, it seems a short-sighted policy 

 to let down the splendid sport hitherto enjoyed. A letter of the 

 late Colonel Hargreaves to me, dated Suisgill, the 28th of May 1893, 



