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is doubtful if much or any of the spawn deposited there ever comes to 

 maturity. A fourteen-foot rod will do all the work, and the standard 

 patterns both of salmon and sea trout flies kill. With a good stiff 

 breeze, size No. 2 Limerick hooks might be used for salmon, and from 

 that to the smallest, according to wind and light. In addition to 

 this salmon and sea trout loch the hotel has the right of fishing up- 

 wards of sixty brown trout lochs, for which no charge is made ; there 

 is also good sea fishing close by, and five miles up Loch Inchard the 

 natives catch a good many sea trout in salt water by baiting with a 

 herring liver. I did not see this done myself, but Mr. Smith, the 

 present tenant of Riconich, told me that he had often witnessed it. 



Not far from Riconich, on the Scourie Road, there is a fresh 

 water loch emptying into the sea by a short burn, and as it is the 

 lowest of a series of small communicating lochs, it would add to 

 the Riconich fishing if money was spent in making an easy nm for 

 salmon and sea trout. Rough efforts have already been tried, and 

 proved successful to a limited extent, as sea trout have been caught 

 in the lowest loch, but not in the numbers they might be if the work 

 of facilitating their ascent was properly taken in hand. 



In 1904 tliis river and Loch Garbet gave 58 salmon and grilse to 

 the rods. 



In 1907, 54 to the rods. 



In 1908, 46 to the rods. 



In 1909, 64 to the rods ; heaviest, 17 lb. 



There has Iseen no change since. 



